The Space Jockey in the pilot's seat. In the 1979 Alien film, the USCSS Nostromo is diverted to LV-426 to investigate a transmission being broadcast by the Space Jockey Ship. When Arthur Dallas, Joan ...

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Brian Johnson, who has died aged 86, was an Oscar-winning visual effects maestro and modelling specialist who contributed significantly to the look of modern science fiction.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a remarkable difference between sunrise and sunset on the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121 b. (An artist’s impression of WASP-121 b.) Credit: Mikal Evans James ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars. They found that giant planets can spin faster than much more massive ...