Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing extreme temperature swings on the exoplanet WASP-18b. When you purchase through ...

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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...

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Artificial intelligence occupies the minds of many these days, including the showrunner, Noah Hawley, of a new FX series based on the long-lurking “Alien” franchise, “Alien: Earth.” Mr. Hawley informs ...

The new FX series went to Thailand to film a story that takes place in a hotter, wetter, more ominous world. By Mike Hale Mike Hale, a New York Times television critic, visited the set of “Alien: ...

A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever to be imaged directly. A glimpse of a planet in its star’s habitable zone — ...