Scientists say moons around rogue planets wandering through the galaxy could remain warm enough for life thanks to tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. These dark, starless worlds may have had ...

Disclosure Day treats extraterrestrial life as a challenge to faith. It’s not.

Half a century after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the director returns to the subject of UFOs with "Disclosure Day." His science fiction films are informed by his fascination with alien encou ...

JWST has revealed dramatic differences between the dawn and dusk regions of the scorching exoplanet WASP-121 b. Fierce winds appear to carry heat from the planet’s permanent dayside, making the ...

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The other day I posted a comment wondering whether anybody has ever made a colony simulator set in the Aliens universe, with players raising the Weyland-Yutani flag on planets that contain absolutely ...

Critics have condemned a new Trump White House webpage that targets immigrants, slamming it as “disgraceful” and “dehumanizing.” The White House spent part of the day teasing online what appeared to ...

Universal Pictures just dropped the final trailer for Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s first sci-fi film since 2005’s War of the Worlds and his first directorial effort since 2022’s The Fabelmans.

What NASA found on Titan shocked scientists and changed how researchers viewed moons in deep space. Beneath layers of dense haze, Titan revealed rivers, lakes, and strange surface features unlike ...

Deep in Cambodia’s isolated caves, a turquoise viper hides in total darkness while another serpent launches into the air. Scientists never expected these discoveries in “empty” caverns. Instead, ...