Why do so many of us have a fascination with dry, desert planets? When Cooper is clobbered by a wall of water on a strange planet in the emotional masterpiece that is "Interstellar," it's exciting.

There is a science fiction opera series from the 1990s that premiered in the US on Syfy, and it's become a cult classic, ripe ...

The distant world WASP-121b is already bizarre. It's football-shaped and rains gems. Now, astronomers leveraged the power of four telescopes to observe what's transpiring deep inside this giant ...