Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far.

Fictional alien worlds have evolved to resemble the real ones astronomers are finding. Trends in the way that exoplanets are depicted in science fiction (sf) have changed since the first real ...

The sci-fi series portrays a fictional alien civilization on a planet that flips between stable and chaotic eras. Image: Netflix By now, I’m assuming that we’ve made our way through all eight ...

In 1928 the writer Jack Williamson recounted Gernsback’s view: Science fiction “takes the basis of science . . . and then adds a thing that is alien to science—imagination. It lights the way.” ...

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But while the dreams of human terraformation remain only fiction and speculation, a new paper published on the pre-print server arXiv wonders if advanced alien civilizations already came up with ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being greeted with both enthusiasm and skepticism.

Scientists have mapped the atmosphere a planet outside of our solar system in 3D for the first ever time. And they have found a world unlike anything we have ever seen: powerful winds that carry ...

32 alien planets that really exist. Brandon Specktor. ... they were stolen straight from "Star Wars," and worlds that may hold exotic forms of life never dreamed up in science fiction.