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, ...

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 ...

Some exoplanets are scorching hot, while others have supersonic winds. But the latest target of the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), WASP-121b? Well, this exoplanet has titanium rainstorms—a weather ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Truth be told, I approached “Alien: Earth” with a degree of skepticism. That’s not due to a lack of love for the iconic sci-fi ...

Image courtesy of FX. By Luis Zonenberg While we continue to look back on last year’s film catalogue, there is still a ...

FX's new series Alien: Earth opens with a scene familiar to any fans of the storied science fiction horror film franchise: A crew of dysfunctional, blue-collar workers waking from extended hibernation ...