"The most likely explanation for the dimming is a brown dwarf – an object heavier than a planet but lighter than a star – surrounded by a vast and dense ring system." ...

Dubbed HD 137010 b, the planet might fall just within the outer edges of its star's 'habitable zone', meaning there could be liquid water on its surface and a suitable atmosphere for life.

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...

The latest episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy to hit the 2026 TV schedule totally had a nod to one of the best sci-fi movie franchises of all time, the Alien films, and I cannot believe I missed ...

The Dyson Sphere is a theoretical megastructure proposed to surround a star and capture its full energy output. While some designs imagine a solid shell, most scientific analyses consider a “swarm” of ...

Sci-fi movies are everywhere these days, and the streaming era has made it easier than ever to unearth many of the genre's latest and greatest offerings. Sure, there are plenty of older sci-fi movies ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

Although Marina Sirtis didn’t wear any prosthetic space alien makeup in Star Trek: The Next Generation, any of the feature films, or Picard, the truth is, like Spock before her, the character of ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

James Cameron’s 1986 film Aliens wasn’t just a smash; it set the series up for continued success. In addition to outgrossing the 1979 Ridley Scott classic, the ending gave the franchise a great place ...