Researchers are painstakingly reconstructing the oldest-known map of the night sky – previously thought lost forever – by X-raying parchment that contains the star catalog hidden beneath other text.

A unique technique allowed astronomers to see the early universe as a "sea of light" and explore the effects of gravity and ...

Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from extraterrestrials. The paper, penned by researchers at the SETI (Search ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Alan Ritchson's new Netflix sci-fi movie War Machine has impressed critics on Rotten Tomatoes as the film hits streaming.

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

RPGs don't always require compelling stories or innovative trappings to be fun. Sometimes, all you want or want are a few ...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy executive producers Noga Landau and Gaia Violo reveal a new tidbit about Genesis Lythe's species, the Dar-Sha.

For the past decade, an eclectic group of professors, staff members, and show-business professionals has been working hard to bring a Star Trek opera to vibrant life. Now, they are inviting the public ...

Prometheus has climbed to #1 on Netflix globally, years after grossing over $400 million at the box office and dividing audiences.

The episode begins with a cold open, in which aliens called Malcorians have discovered that Riker (Jonathan Frakes) was living among them, surgically disguised as a Malcorian. What makes this episode ...