Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

Creating a believable alien world takes more than imagination. It requires biology, environmental logic, and evolutionary pressure. The Birrin ecosystem follows scientific rules every step of the way.

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. - NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb Space ...

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 ...

Did NASA discover city lights on an alien planet? This video explores the implications and details of the findings that suggest the presence of artificial light sources on a distant exoplanet. The ...

Samuel Blenkn as Boy Kavalier in “Alien: earth” Episode 4 “Observation” / FX Hulu In Episode 4, we finally get the full list of names for the megacorporations that have divided up the territories of ...

Thursday’s trailer includes several haunting shots of violence and destruction on the crashed spaceship, including evidence that the humans on board were attacked by facehuggers. That’s about what ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. While the crash is a ...

Hulu has announced that Noah Hawley's new Alien: Earth series will premiere its first two episodes on August 12. The first images from the series can also be found below. It’s been a few weeks since ...

Discovering extraterrestrial life has tantalized the public imagination as far back as Epicurean philosophers in Ancient Greece. Yet despite centuries of speculation, the search for alien lifeforms ...

Here's a look at the Earth Day 2025 teaser that was released earlier today, followed by a look back at what else we know about the highly anticipated series: Previously shared by FX Networks, that ...