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, ...

A red dwarf 130 light-years away has just rewritten the rules of space weather. For the first time, astronomers have captured definitive evidence of a massive coronal mass ejection from a star other ...

Finding life elsewhere in the cosmos is no easy task. We’ve been searching for decades and, so far, we haven’t heard from anyone and we haven’t found anywhere that looks quite like home. While ...

Warning. If you have yet to see Predator: Badlands, be forewarned that we’ll be diving into spoiler territory. Dan Trachtenberg’s latest take on the world of the Yautja has made it no secret that ...

Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...