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 ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

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 ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

Alien Earth’s first season has ended, and the important bit of that is “first” season. What seemed like it might have been a miniseries was in fact meant to have multiple seasons, and now we have some ...

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In its penultimate episode, Alien: Earth does something that only a show set on Earth could do: take the Xenomorph outside into the sun. While the movies all take place on dimly lit spaceships or dark ...

Are some planets actually born from alien wanderers drifting through space? :milky_way: A new theory suggests that interstellar objects like comet 3I/ATLAS might be seeding young star systems, ...

This article contains spoilers for Alien: Earth through Episode 6, as well as the rest of the Alien movie series. Alien: Resurrection, the fourth movie in the Alien franchise, is a mixed bag. Written ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Samuel Blenkn as Boy Kavalier in “Alien: earth” Episode 4 “Observation” / FX Hulu In Episode 4, we ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

The Alien franchise has always focused on just one titular alien — the Xenomorph. Yes, over the years, we got extrapolations of the Xenomorph, like the Queen, and the facehuggers. Yet they all still ...