Bolted to the side of each of the two Voyager spacecraft is a gold-plated copper phonograph record, sealed in an aluminum case and meant to survive for a billion years. When Voyager 1 launched in 1977 ...

For years, the United States’ political dysfunction has been attributed to large-scale social and economic changes. Experts point to the failures of globalization, rising inequality, reduced social ...

Even as Creative Assembly dashed any hopes of a release date at Gamescom, its hands-on demo for Alien: Isolation 2 is already turning heads. While it only includes the Prologue, it picks up where the ...

Fans of the Alien franchise need to play or revisit these eight Alien-related games before the year's end.

After nearly a decade, Ridley Scott is returning to the Alien franchise with a contemporary take. The Academy Award honoree recently revealed that he’s “rewriting the next Alien film,” which will ...

Tomorrow morning, if all goes to plan, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, its latest and greatest orbital observatory, will lift off from its launchpad and add a little rocket-booster light to ...

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There are, by various estimates, several trillion planets within what is known as the Local Group of galaxies—our closest galaxy neighbors, including our own Milky Way. Many of these planets are ...

Nasa officials have announced that new observations of 20 exoplanets beyond our solar system will help unlock the secrets of these worlds' atmospheric makeup. NASA will use the small Pandora satellite ...

Alien icon Sigourney Weaver has been a mainstay in Hollywood ever since she broke out as Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece. In a career that spans five decades to date, Weaver has made ...

Update Sept. 5, 11:46 a.m. EDT (1546 UTC): SpaceX deployed its 27 Starlink satellites. SpaceX completed a Labor Day weekend launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The Sunday ...

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