A small group of distant worlds may hold the clues to life beyond Earth. Astronomers searching for life beyond Earth have narrowed down the most promising places to look. Out of more than 6,000 known ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

Astrobiologist and planetary scientist Mike Wong is a big fan of Rocky’s non-traditional look, because it points to the fact that evolution is often random.

The Ryan Gosling-led Project Hail Mary does, in many ways, feel like a lowercase Interstellar: a fantastically good time at the movies, if not quite as insightful or far-reaching as a generational ...

Explore the darkest corners of the abyss with 18 terrifying creatures found at the bottom of the ocean. These are Earth's ...

Red Dwarf's scouse technician Dave Lister was the last human alive, a down-on-his-luck slobbish space-hero long before Peter ...

As Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic, unclassifiable film – in which David Bowie plays an alien visiting Earth – turns 50, we look back at Tom Milne’s deciphering of it. From our Summer 1976 issue.

Feedback has discovered a subgenre of social media dedicated to cleaning, and isn't impressed by its proponents' latest object of ire ...

We uncover the hidden flaws in these seemingly flawless games that kept them from being considered among the best of the best.

A new study isolated DNA from the tumours of 500 cats across 13 different tumour types and mapped the sequence of 1,000 genes often found mutated in human cancers.

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For decades, humans have been scanning the cosmos for signals of intelligent life.

Aubrey Plaza co-wrote and co-stars in a new animated series about an unhappy cat seeking emancipation from humans. It's coming to Prime Video.