Astronomers using a machine learning algorithm have identified 11,554 potential exoplanets from NASA's TESS data, including 10,052 never seen before. The approach analyzed light curves from over 83 ...

“Alien Girls”, now in its world premiere after a developmental run in the Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival, is funny, sweet, quietly devastating, and just odd enough to keep you leaning forward.

Though they were familiar with each other’s work as actors, Brittany Bradford and Emma Ramos had never met before they were cast in the Old Globe’s world-premiere production of “Alien Girls.” It ...

The best science fiction shows us new ways to see our lives and our times by showing us how both might be otherwise. Characters who seem like us seek out alien worlds whose systems clash, or rhyme, ...

When Leslie Nielsen passed away in 2010, most of the obituaries led with his later career as a comic actor, when his masterful deadpan delivery turned him into the unlikely star of "Airplane!" and the ...

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape - covered with a perpetual ocean of ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — State and local offices across Washington are being directed to remove the word “alien” from state statutes and replace it with “noncitizen” under a new law aimed at modernizing legal ...

Plus: AI fakes of the Iran war are flooding X—and Grok is failing to flag them. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...

When the Spanish first reached the Andes, they found something surprising: Many of the locals had long, pointy heads. They discovered that the Collagua, an indigenous group in Peru that was conquered ...

If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 light years away in the constellation Leo, it's attracted a lot of attention ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would direct federal agencies to begin releasing government files related to aliens and unidentified flying objects, pointing ...