A strange purple object aboard the ISS sparked alien fears online, but NASA revealed it was a potato experiment. It shows how microgravity can turn ordinary plants into bizarre shapes.

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A strange, tentacled object that went viral online was revealed to be a space-grown purple potato. Astronaut Don Pettit ...

Adapted from a novel by Andy Weir and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, “Project Hail Mary” is marketed as the ...

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Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? That question sits at the heart of Disclosure Day, Spielberg’s new film. Here are 10 movies that ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

After FX confirmed Alien: Earth Season 2 last year, the hit science fiction show’s executive producer, Dana Gonzales, gave fans an exciting update regarding the upcoming installment’s progress. In a ...