The coating could be applied on future spacecraft designed to block light from distant stars hosting exoplanets.

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

US firm Vast is developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity to keep astronauts healthy on deep-space missions and push the search for alien life.

We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research group comes out with a paper helping to shape what is becoming one of the ...

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his unmade movie could have been about.

What started as a quiet rivalry between two billionaire space dreamers has turned into one of the ugliest feuds in tech. Elon ...

Nasa is attempting an unprecedented mission to rescue its ageing Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before it re-enters Earth’s ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

On a clear night, the sky may seem peaceful and empty. Yet beyond the stars visible to our eyes lies a universe so vast that it is difficult to imagine. Our gal ...