O ne of the crowning jewels of American science fiction storytelling, the Star Trekfranchise has defined how audiences think ...

The Next Generation season 6 continued the show's impressive run, delivering another 26 episodes of high-quality science ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the brutal heat of its host star. The planet, labeled BD+05 4868 Ab ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism. There has been ...

HANDOUT/University of Cambridge/AFP via Getty Scientists believe they might have discovered evidence of life on a planet 700 trillion miles away from Earth. K2-18b, a planet more than double the ...

Good news for those with a Pluto-shaped hole in their life, as astronomers may be on the verge of finding a new ninth planet in our solar system. The researchers—an international team led from ...

A team of researchers has found new evidence that there may be life on a planet two and a half times the size of Earth in another solar system. But don't get too excited just yet. A team of ...