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From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and ...

A new study suggests alien life may be easier to detect through clusters of similar planets rather than single biosignatures.

Usually, comets are dormant blocks of rock and ice. They only wake up when they get close to a star. The intense heat causes ...

Ridley Scott's Alien is widely considered the ultimate sci-fi horror movie, but a few genre films, like The Fly and The Thing, are even better.

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Over four decades, the Alien franchise has brought many different versions of the xenomorph creature to theaters.

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The creator of Project Hail Mary has written a brand-new story in his beloved sci-fi universe and this time, you can ...

NASA scientists managed to grow plants in real lunar soil for the first time, and the results were surprising. Seeds planted in Moon dirt actually sprouted, proving that life can begin even in an ...

In the sci-fi book and now movie Project Hail Mary, astronaut Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, encounters three ...