In a remarkable case of science fiction reflected in reality ... star is blasting away pieces of the planet's atmosphere bit by bit. Brandon is the space/physics editor at Live Science.

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

Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to ...

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 ...

on our troubled planet or in the farthest reaches of space. Science fiction, as Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote, is not predictive but descriptive, and what contemporary science-fiction authors are ...