Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

Tom has been covering technology since 2019, having worked as part of the phones team at TechRadar and then as an editor at What to Watch. Since 2025 he’s been a freelance contributor for many more ...

That philosophy became a guiding principle for Russo as he crafted the score for Noah Hawley’s ambitious expansion of the ...

We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research ...

Steven Spielberg began tackling the story for his latest movie, Disclosure Day, after a rare sequence of two films that fell flat at the box office. The Hollywood veteran started writing in 2023, a ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars. They found that giant planets can spin faster than much more massive ...

Disclosure Day is undoubtedly one of the most human films about extraterrestrial intelligence. And I am not playfully throwing around the word “human” to show how the film is humanising the “aliens”, ...

Astronomers studying the atmospheres of several intensely heated exoplanets uncovered an unexpected pattern that may reveal a ...

The nature of space, time and the evolution of life on Earth mean it’s unlikely extraterrestrial life has visited our home planet.

Anticipation. Rumors. Anxiously scanning the horizon, hoping that a brilliant force will leave the masses forever changed. Yes, a new Steven Spielberg movie about close encounters with ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...