Amid all of io9’s lists looking back at the year’s best books, movies, TV shows, and more, there’s always one melancholy ...

Sometimes you only need one of these big guys to come your way,” observed Julián Alvarado-Gómez of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. These comments evoke the significance of the recent ...

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 ...

The Alien franchise has received a boost of new energy thanks to the work of Alien: Earth and Alien: Romulus, and when ...

The controversial Harvard astronomer is one of the main sources of the "alien mothership" hypothesis. This is what he thinks, ...

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As you’d probably expect from such a fast-growing genre, there have been more than a few Metroidvanias that have been left in ...

Nintendo has announced its Nintendo Switch Online additions for December, which are for all the N64-era 3D platformer fans out there. On December 17, Rayman 2: The Great Escape and Tonic Trouble are ...

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 ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Now, the new film Predator: Badlands is getting attention for its prominent use of Weyland-Yutani, the organization that has been a major part of the Alien franchise ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing extreme temperature swings on the exoplanet WASP-18b. When you purchase through ...