When stars like the Sun run out of hydrogen in their cores, fusion slows and the outer layers balloon outward. The star can ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called "red giant" phase are even more destructive to their orbiting planets than ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

Star Wars may have been the biggest sci-fi film out of the 1970s, but a surreal animated film from France might be the most ...

Alien, Event Horizon, and Pandorum are all among the absolute most terrifying sci-fi and horror movies set in space.

Long before birds took flight, the skies belonged to the pterosaurs, the most extraordinary flying creatures in Earth’s history. From the bat-sized Anurognathids to the towering Azhdarchids, this ...

After reviving Predator, Dan Trachtenberg wants a crack at Waterworld... but there's a twist. Read on for more details about ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Long before the Gobi became a wasteland, it was a thriving ecosystem teeming with life. This documentary explores how windborne sands and rapid burial created near-perfect fossil ...

The actor’s curiosity as a frog-hunting teenager living in Morton Grove was the start of his commitment to nature.

IRISH stargazers are being urged to look up this weekend for “one of the most spectacular events”. Jupiter, currently the ...

Astrophysicists may have spotted evidence for “dark stars,” an unusual type of star that could possibly have existed in the earliest days of the universe, in data from the James Webb Space Telescope.