Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

The Alien franchise has been a cornerstone of the sci-fi genre since Ridley Scott unleashed the xenomorph on the world in 1979. Now, as the decades have passed, the franchise has had highs and lows ...

Launched in 2019, the ESA mission will measure the size and density of hundreds of known exoplanets orbiting bright stars.

I could be the best pathologist on planet earth—the undisputed Sherlock Holmes of medical science, even—and I still wouldn’t have the slightest clue what the cause of death is for this particular ...