In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

Scientists have mapped the atmosphere a planet outside of our solar system in 3D for the first ever time. And they have found a world unlike anything we have ever seen: powerful winds that carry ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

In the sci-fi book and now movie Project Hail Mary, astronaut Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, encounters three ...

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Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

There’s a new science fiction film in theaters that is largely based on science fact. "Project Hail Mary," from directing duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, is adapted from the novel of the same ...

After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply interesting from the truly promising. A new study highlights a select group of rocky ...