A strange, tentacled object that went viral online was revealed to be a space-grown purple potato. Astronaut Don Pettit cultivated the unusual specimen during a microgravity gardening experiment, ...

Released in March, the new sci-fi flick 'Project Hail Mary' features Puerto Rican puppeteer James Ortiz, who stars opposite ...

Lon Chaney Jr. remains one of the seminal figures in horror cinema, having played various iterations of the Wolf Man, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide ...

Reboots of shows ranging from Millennium to Homeboys in Outer Space could be wildly successful given the right circumstances.

Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from ...

Because there's more to extra-terrestrial life than humans with prosthetics stuck to their foreheads.

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

Makeup artist and cosplayer Jo Steel shares secrets to perfect the sinister Harkonnen look from Dune.

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The best places to look for alien life: Scientists identify 45 Earth-like worlds to explore for a 'Project Hail Mary' by Royal Astronomical Society edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan ...