When Netflix was looking for an alien landscape, to film a mind-bending episode in the latest series of Black Mirror, there was one stand-out candidate. And so it was that the cast and crew of USS ...

Planets circling twin stars "existed in sci-fi for decades before we knew that they could even really exist in reality,” he said. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives ...

Planets circling twin stars “existed in sci-fi for decades before we knew that they could even really exist in reality,” he said. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives ...

LONDON (AP) — Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system, though they caution more work is needed to confirm their findings. The research ...

Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars because they’re lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant planets. A light year is nearly 6 trillion miles. The brown dwarf pair was first ...

The two planets will act as the "eyes" of the "smile," with the delicate crescent Moon forming the "mouth," Culbertson details. Venus will be the brighter of the two planets. This alignment will ...