US firm Vast is developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity to keep astronauts healthy on deep-space missions and push the search for alien life.

The imaginary constructions of science fiction fill us with awe at their alien vastness. Which have you explored, and what was the most overwhelming?

Time works differently in space and on other planets, so the decade-plus that Alien Isolation fans have been waiting for the sequel might have felt like a blink of an eye on a different world. On ...

Come for the 12-hour campaign, stay for the co-op mode all about becoming the ultimate alien killer The object of the game is to use your space ship to pick up cargo from one side of the screen and ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...