Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...

The internet is going bananas over a Dorito-shaped unidentified flying object seen hovering over the infamous Area 51. There are few locations on Earth more linked with mystery, secrecy and rumours of ...

For decades, astronomers have chased fleeting hints that something alive might be lurking beyond Earth, only to watch each candidate fade under scrutiny. Now a distant world called K2-18 b has ...