An artist’s impression of exocomets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of ...

Fascinatingly, though, the introductory scenes of “Series Acclimation Mil” also answer a question viewers have wondered ever since Captain Kirk began to boldly go where no man has gone before; how ...

Since the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960, scientists have been scanning the Milky ...

Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research is pushing astronomers to look instead at the loudest neighborhoods in the ...

Exploring the unique characteristics of each of the following alien life forms gives fans a deeper understanding of the incredible and sometimes terrifying potential hidden within the galaxy far, far ...

I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...