After the success of James Cameron’s “Aliens” in the summer of 1986, Dark Horse Comics’s expanded universe continued time and again to forge new pathways for the terrifying extraterrestrial Xenomorph ...

Star Trek turns 60 years old this year, and with Starfleet Academy premiering this month, we're celebrating by ranking all 12 ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Forty years ago, Star Trek crossed over to the mainstream with the 1986 film The Voyage Home, in which Captain Kirk and his ...

Scientists might have discovered life outside the Solar System. Welcome to planet K2-18 b. This exoplanet is 124 light-years ...

Add independent.com on Google Add the SB Independent as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since their initial discovery 30 years ago, exoplanets have revolutionized our ideas ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Few directors are capable of dissecting human behavior with the surgical absurdity of Yorgos Lanthimos. His newest tour de force, “Bugonia,” is no exception to this treatment. Placed in the context of ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search for life beyond our solar system. The discovery of the exoplanet orbiting in ...