Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

"You'll never be alone out here - there's too many voices." Quiver Distr. has revealed an official trailer for a Canadian indie sci-fi film titled The Silent Planet, made by filmmaker Jeffrey St.

This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team including the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the NCCR PlanetS. The new planet lies in an eccentric ...

The first-ever TV show in the sci-fi franchise is set to channel the horror vibes of Ridley Scott's Alien as the terrifying xenomorphs land on planet Earth. With a few teasers already released and ...

It’s been a few years since FX announced plans to collaborate with Fargo‘s Noah Hawley on an Alien television series, but as we look ahead to the future, the project’s arrival is closer than ...

For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will ... and the eighth if you look down (that will be Earth, under your feet). Sorry to Pluto, but it got booted ...

Meanwhile, Mars is at "opposition" this month. That's when a planet and the sun are directly opposite each other with Earth in between. This celestial event happens about every two years for the ...

Each of the rings wields one of Earth’s elemental forces, and together the Planeteers can use the rings to summon Captain Planet. Fans can expect Pepose to bring his love of the original Captain ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

Their alignment in the night sky, however, depends on the orbit and position of each planet as seen from Earth. While two or three planets aligning next to one another in the night sky is quite ...

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 ...