Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure Day" packs a hopeful message into its alien-centric story, and there's plenty to dive into ...

JWST has revealed dramatic differences between the dawn and dusk regions of the scorching exoplanet WASP-121 b. Fierce winds appear to carry heat from the planet’s permanent dayside, making the ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination ...

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming ...

The sci-fi survival horror game Alien: Isolation 2 unveiled its first playable demo at Summer Game Fest Play Days. This demo ...

Alien: Isolation 2 leans harder into tense survival, but its new setting shake-up takes notes from Outlast 2's open ...

Astronomers have spent years searching for a possible hidden giant planet far beyond Neptune. Unusual orbits among distant ...

The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear: An interstellar comet looks to ...

Come back to planet Earth and stop acting like you are an alien visiting from another galaxy, Aquarius, because the cosmos is staging a major intervention for your detached attitude this week.

One of the most exciting aspects of playing open-world games is that many of them allow us to just go around and do whatever ...

The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an ...

Exoplanet magnetic fields were measured for the first time using ultra-hot Jupiter wind speeds in a June 2026 Nature ...