Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the buzzy sci-fi series is science fiction (obviously), Dr. Sward says there's plenty of real science peppered throughout.

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on distant exoplanets and the rusty plains of Mars. Now, a small icy world in orbit around Saturn is emerging as one of the most compelling ...

Science suggests that alien life may not be as random as science fiction often imagines. Through evolution and natural selection, organisms on other worlds would likely develop familiar traits like ...

The story of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the European Space Agency's Philae spacecraft just got a whole hell of a lot more interesting. After a semi-botched landing resulting in the spacecraft ...

What do I look like, a scientist? Don’t ask me. But these guys seem pretty excited. “It’s almost too amazing to believe,” one says. (Don’t miss the final and maybe most important sentence: “Despite ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

The TV series Alien:Earth has introduced a number of new creatures to the much loved, albeit terrifying, Alien franchise. But how realistic are the new aliens? That’s a question that we – a trio of ...