With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

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In many cases, the greatest British television shows are a cut above what we see on U.S. network TV. Here are 15 of the ...

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Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

I've taken incredible photos of this interstellar comet for more than a month using two tiny iPad-connected scopes in my ...

I drove the 15-hour and nearly 700-mile journey across the state, traversing mountain ranges and rock slides, dirt roads and agricultural checkpoints, from Marin to Modoc County.

There's no rest for the wicked in Fallout 1, and that's a very good thing Video games are usually built upon the fantastical, but so often they neglect to nurture a believable fiction. They force ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar ...

This month's update includes standouts such as Cult of the Lamb's Woolhaven expansion, Hungry Horrors, and Rogue Factory.

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