Seventy years ago this month, he sought out strange new worlds as a proto-Captain Kirk in sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet".

Assembly Theory shifts the search for life from identifying specific molecules to measuring chemical complexity, offering a ...

I was out in my home-front garden taking a night stroll after finishing a couple of whiskey pegs and dinner. At once, I was startled by two weird figures lurking behind trees. I didn’t assume they ...

The search for life on another planet is one of the most exciting things in astrophysics. As humanity has searched the ...

While there’s no single accepted definition of life, scientists agree on some of the key clues. Gases like oxygen, carbon dioxide and methane in a planet’s atmosphere can serve as possible indicators ...

The number 45 matters less than what it represents: the shift from open-ended discovery to structured search, and from chance ...

Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have ...

Planet Comicon KC is celebrating its 27th year at Bartle Hall, marking its evolution from a small suburban comic book show into the largest event of the year held at the venue.

Rocky was brought to life through a combination of puppetry and visual effects. But his charming personality was the result of a misunderstanding.

NESTLED in the Italian foothills, a 50-year-old community lives a sci-fi reality – talking to plants, communicating with aliens from underground temples, and renaming themselves after ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in ...