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 ...

Vanity Fair reports from the Capitol Hill conference, where members of a sprawling community of national security experts and ...

Apple TV+ has gradually become one of the strongest homes for science fiction on television. The streaming service has invested heavily in ambitious genre storytelling, from alternate-history space ...

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

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

In 1988, the Soviet Union launched two of its most ambitious spacecraft ever built not toward Mars itself, but toward one of ...

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

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his ...

David looks smug while wearing his spacesuit in Prometheus - 20th Century Fox Welcome toThe Best Movies Never Made, a look back at the most fascinating, strange, and tantalizing films that never ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Museum’s podcast, AirSpace, is preparing a special limited series called 50 Years of Air + Space that will dive into the Museum’s history, its nearly completed renovation, and its plans for the ...