Star Trek is bringing fan-favorite characters and alien worlds back together

IDW Publishing is highlighting the best part of Star Trek with its reprints of classic Trek comics that explore the franchise ...
Starlust on MSN

NASA has confirmed 6,000 alien worlds scattered across our universe - some are just bizarre

Just three decades ago, astronomers had no evidence that planets commonly orbited other stars. Then in 2025, NASA confirmed ...

Webb reveals a pink alien world wrapped in salt clouds

As for those salt clouds, the salt is not table salt or even Pink Himalayan Rock Salt, though that would go splendidly with the theme. The paper, published in The Astronomical Journal, describes them ...
SETI Institute

How Clouds Hide Alien Worlds—and How Astronomers See Through Them

While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...

If 'Disclosure Day' Didn't Do It for You, Maybe Consider Steven Spielberg's Meaner Alien Epic

War of the Worlds is a vicious alien-invasion movie from Steven Spielberg that's worlds away from his most recent release, ...
Phys.org

What a missing signal tells us about alien worlds

When the James Webb Space Telescope detected potential biosignatures in the atmosphere of K2-18 b last year, the discovery sparked intense debate. Here was a sub-Neptune exoplanet 124 light years away ...
Polygon

Netflix is about to lose the most inventive sci-fi show of the century

The science fiction genre is home to many fascinating, terrifying, and breathtaking worlds that stretch the limits of imagination, from the hive of scum and villainy that is Tatooine in Star Wars to ...
The Escapist

Morels: Out of This World turns mushroom hunting into a chill sci-fi safari

There seems to be a lot of interest in mushrooms and toadstools these days. For no apparent reason, lately my bizarro YouTube algorithm has presented me with a couple of vids from mushroom-hunting ...