The TIE Fighter and its variants are one of the many prominent battle ships, seen in the Star Wars universe. Some of its ...

SHANGHAI -- An astronomical satellite jointly developed by China and France has detected a gamma-ray burst dating back 13 ...

The strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a planet outside our solar system has been found by a team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge.

Could the universe be rotating at an imperceptible speed? An extremely slow rotation, occurring once every 500 billion years, ...

It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it!” is often misattributed to either Mr Spock or  Dr Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy from Star Trek. The ...

Bucharest hosts another Open Streets weekend, a large pop culture convention, and one of the year’s top running events, while ...

The second season of "Andor" is making the empire's Nazi resonances explicit — up to and including their choice of victim.

The good high-concept shows, if you squint, reflect the real world. Among the best examples is Squid Game (Netflix technically released the second series in late 2024, but I consider St Stephen’s Day ...

Pope Benedict XVI was installed as the 265th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on April 24, 2005, becoming the first German ...

SVOM satellite in space Photos: courtesy of the CAS. Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), a joint space ...

China plans to launch the Shenzhou XX mission for a crew shift aboard the nation's Tiangong space station on Thursday, ...

This week brings the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday – but instead of getting presents, the Hubble team is giving out ...