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Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

The first six months of 2026 have produced four stand-out sci-fi movies – and they all have one thing in common, says Bethan ...

A poster of Three-Body displayed outside the MIPCOM venue. [Photo provided to China Daily] One of China's most popular sci-fi series, Three-Body — an online series adapted from Hugo Award-winning ...

As the film Disclosure Day rolls out in cinemas, director Steven Spielberg is once again pushing audiences to imagine what contact with extraterrestrial life might look like and what it might mean for ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

06:45, Tue, May 12, 2026 Updated: 00:53, Wed, May 13, 2026 Extraordinary spiderweb-like structures on the surface of Mars have been photographed in unprecedented detail by NASA's Curiosity rover, with ...

New isotopic evidence is rewriting the story of Earth's first continents. Imagine the planet nearly 3.8 billion years ago: a water world ringed by volcanic islands. How did solid continents arise in ...