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 ...

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 ...

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 ...