A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever to be imaged directly. A glimpse of a planet in its star’s habitable zone — ...

Scientists have detected a hidden alien planet by examining the orbits of the known worlds in the star system, known as Kepler-139. The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world ...

"Alien: Earth" follows a group of soldiers as a ship carrying a Xenomorph crash-lands on Earth. The FX TV series is set in the same universe as the "Alien" movies. Here's when "Alien: Earth" takes ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

You’ve traveled thousands of light-years through interstellar star systems. And now you’re stranded on a planet you know nothing about. As long as you’ve got oxygen, water and food aboard your ...

The new FX series went to Thailand to film a story that takes place in a hotter, wetter, more ominous world. By Mike Hale Mike Hale, a New York Times television critic, visited the set of “Alien: ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. And, as it turns out, in space, nobody can tell if you’re bad at your job, either. At least, that seems to be the premise of Alien: Earth episode 5, in which we ...