The academic and author discusses what to expect from the singularity, the need for AI self-correcting mechanisms, and what ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

Alien: Earth is a hugely exciting entry in the sci-fi franchise, but its existence may cause some problems for the series' ...

The official logline of the series states, "When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman (Sydney ...

It thrives in all the same ways as Alien, yet manages to go even further than that seminal project. Planet of the Vampires merges the fear of the unknown with a grave distrust in those closest to ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on ...

We're talking about planets with conditions similar to Earth, where life could've taken a different evolutionary path. Imagine a world where T-Rexes roam the alien landscapes and pterodactyls soar ...

Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide gas on a planet beyond our solar system. The findings are both a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

An image snapped by NASA's Mars rover has sparked theories of aliens on the Red Planet. The photo shows what many have claimed is a 'Tic Tac UFO.' Among the rocky landscape is a cylinder-shaped ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) -- Hubble's telescope successor expected to launch in 2018 -- should be able to peer deeply into the atmospheres of alien planets to try to see if they ...

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