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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artist’s impression of a super-puff planet. | Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images If you think you’ve met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven’t learned about TOI-4507 b. This strange world, which sits about 578 light-years from the solar system, breaks almost every …

Sigourney Weaver’s xenomorph fighting days may not be behind her just yet. The actress confirmed that she “had a meeting” with Disney about reprising her role as Ellen Ripley in another Alien installment and expressed her interest in working with Walter Hill, who produced Ridley Scott‘s original 1979 film, to create a “very different kind of Alien.”  “Walter Hill is …

Sigourney Weaver won’t rule out returning to her seminal Alien character Ripley in light of 50 new pages of a script she’s seen from producer Walter Hill. “Walter Hill is a very good friend of mine, and he wrote 50 pages where Ripley would be now, and they are quite extraordinary. I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but …

After Ellen Ripley’s last appearance in David Fincher’s “Alien 3,” Sigourney Weaver teased a potential return to the world of Weyland-Yutani at a New York Comic Con “Alien” reunion panel. “[‘Alien’ producer] Walter Hill is a very good friend of mine, and he wrote 50 pages of where Ripley would be now, and they’re quite extraordinary,” Weaver on stage during …

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began blasting water “like a fire hose” before it was anywhere near the sun, according to a recent study. Researchers observed the comet scattering water unusually early in a discovery that sheds light on how the building blocks of life are distributed across other planetary systems. Initial James Webb Space Telescope observations have suggested that 3I/ATLAS …

Astronomers have captured an image of a small planet forming within the dusty disc surrounding a distant star. The still-forming planet is carving out a gap in the dusty disc as it orbits the star. Credit: C. Ginski/R. van Capelleveen et al. Astronomers had long theorised that planets probably exist in the gaps in these ‘circumstellar’ discs, and that they …

When Sega and Creative Assembly’s Alien: Isolation launched in 2014, I was deputy editor at Official Xbox Magazine. I remember getting the review copy from our contributor Alex “Game Over, Man” Dale, and asking him how long the game was. 35-40 hours, he said. WTF, I said. I can’t remember how Alex responded – possibly his transmission ended with a …

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature1, was the culmination of centuries of dreaming, and decades of searching, for worlds beyond the Solar System. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery. Astronomers have …

A fresh look at data collected by NASA’s Cassini probe nearly two decades ago has revealed new, complex organic molecules on Saturn‘s icy moon Enceladus – pointing to tantalizing chemistry taking place deep beneath its hidden ocean. In plumes of water ice spewing from cracks in Enceladus’s shell, a team led by astrobiologist Nozair Khawaja from the University of Stuttgart …

A massive comet traveling through the solar system is much larger than previously thought and could be a remnant of alien technology, a scientist claims in a new report. 3I/ATLAS was first identified in July by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. The U.S. space agency confirmed the object is an interstellar object – only the third such object to …