Without a juggernaut like “Avatar,” this year’s visual effects Oscar race is proving a competitive one, with VFX branch members nominating the stellar work in “Alien: Romulus,” “Better ...

Humans had already been sending radio waves out into space for decades ... H.G. Wells launched the alien-invaders genre with his novel The War of the Worlds in 1898; it has remained in print ...

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Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world ... km), according to the European Space Agency. The colossal salt flat ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is peering into distant worlds and rewriting our grasp of the cosmos. And in 2025, its budget is on track to get slashed. At January's Meeting of the American ...

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which are very short and very powerful blasts energy coming from deep in space. Possible explanations have included everything from black holes to alien technology. Researchers hope to be able to ...

The sequel to Alien: Romulus could be bringing back the franchise’s most famous character in an unexpected way, as Ellen Ripley is rumored to appear in the film. Industry insider Daniel Richtman ...

The physical limitations of modern spacecraft pose significant challenges for reaching interstellar space in a human lifetime, especially with limited room onboard for carrying propellant or ...

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A decade ago humanity launched around 200 objects into space per year. Now we launch more than 2,600, with no prospects for slowing down. This rapid expansion of human activity in outer space has ...

A vast alien planet has blistering winds racing around its equator at nearly 30 times the speed of sound on Earth. Lisa Nortmann at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and her colleagues used ...