For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

A recent study has found video evidence that octopuses are hitting fish in the ocean for some unknown reason, displaying ...

All seven Predator films are now available to stream on Hulu, meaning sci-fi fans can watch a franchise evolve.

If the government confirms nonhuman intelligence, psychological research offers clues about the range of ways humans might ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

TOI-4616 b is an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting an M-dwarf that offers a strong benchmark for studying atmospheric loss and ...

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

Seventy years ago this month, he sought out strange new worlds as a proto-Captain Kirk in sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet".

Rocky was brought to life through a combination of puppetry and visual effects. But his charming personality was the result of a misunderstanding.

Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow in vivid greens and oranges—a far cry from the pitch-black abyss of their natural ocean floor. Researchers have ...

Project Hail Mary wouldn’t have worked nearly as well without the decision to make Rocky a practical puppet instead of CGI.

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...