Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

This fanciful yet scientifically guided tale describes a visit to the Moon, and is considered by many the first work of ...

In a remarkable case of science fiction reflected in reality, scientists have reported the discovery of a planet similar to Vulcan, the home world of Dr. Spock in the Star Trek franchise.

Though full terraforming may take centuries, if not millennia, the long-term goal would be a Mars with stable liquid water, ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to map the atmosphere of WASP-121b - also known as Tylos - in 3D and what they found sounds like something out of science fiction. The planet is 900 ...

“I mostly just hope it's real.” Planets around binary stars were first predicted by science fiction before it became science reality. The universe is really interesting and there's lots of ...

but on all planets. It feels like something out of science fiction," says Julia Victoria Seidel, a researcher at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and lead author of the study ...

While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a science-fiction fan’s imagination. The first planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system began to be ...