While sci-fi movies can tell dark tales, there are some that will actually leave you feeling optimistic about what's to come.

Astronomers have discovered a strange new type of exoplanet known as a Hycean world—an ocean-covered planet with a thick ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a star located about 83 light years away. The newfound alien world is slightly ...

Former "Aquaman" actor Jason Momoa will soon return to the DC Universe as Lobo, but decades ago, he played another alien badass on a Syfy TV series.

Starting a new character? Make them stand out with an active background full of "plot hooks" that you, the player, can use.

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

The planet Vulcan is no longer called Vulcan in the far-flung future of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, but some characters are still adjusting to the change.

In the affluent, technocratic Alexandria Colony, people are disappearing. And witnesses are dying in grisly, mysterious ways—it all reeks of Xenomorphs. At a loss, the Hume City police call in Special ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of thousands of exoplanets, or planets that orbit other stars, and is ...

One day, probably far off in the very distant future, if astronomers are correct in their assumptions about the vastness of space, Earth will be visited by intelligent beings from another planet.