Somewhere in the southern sky, a giant planet roughly the size of Jupiter whips around a faint star every few days, so close ...

A new study has identified a potentially record-breaking haul of transiting exoplanets, thanks to a machine learning ...

New research suggests that many planets previously considered promising for life may, in fact, be far less hospitable. A ...

The Alien franchise is one of the single most influential and impactful sci-fi series in cinematic history, and though it started all the way back in 1979, it has remained as relevant and essential in ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a star located about 83 light years away. The newfound alien world is slightly ...

Chaos is built into “Alien Girls,” which a year ago was workshopped at the Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival. A staged reading there was directed by Jaki Bradley, who has returned to direct the ...