Earth is dotted with humongous, human-made structures that, to an alien eye, may be tell-tale signs of intelligent goings-on.

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

With immigration battles raging across the United States, Neill Blomkamp's Distict 9 has taken on a whole new meaning.

The LHS 1903 system defies expectations with a rocky outer planet, prompting new ideas about how planets form and evolve.

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.