For generations, artists and science-fiction writers have imagined alien landscapes beneath twin sunsets. The image became ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

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Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

The TRAPPIST-1 system, located about 41 light years from Earth, has been a focal point of much exoplanetary discussion—mainly ...

For years, the search for alien life has focused on Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars. But this episode explores a more surprising possibility: giant moons circling massive worlds may offer ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Milky Way galaxy has more than 400 billion stars in it. Over the last few decades, ...

Moon dust may be hiding signs of pulverised alien technology, scientist says - Grain-sized remnants of alien technology may ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

There is no chance in hell our species will be able to reach another Earth-like planet in the Universe in the foreseeable future, so the only way we can get a sense of the habitability of such places ...