In July 2025, astronomers spotted something remarkable passing through our Solar System, an object that had not come from ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

A study suggests that stellar plasma may distort alien signals, complicating SETI's search for extraterrestrial life by ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

AI anthropomorphism is a documented crisis in LLM science: a new Microsoft paper found more than half of 300 studies assumed ...

A rare visitor from another star system has undergone one of the most extensive technosignature searches ever conducted on an ...

Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced ...

In 2016, during the first Trump campaign, I wrote an article asking whether American democracy could survive the reduction of politics to entertainment. At the time, the question seemed exaggerated to ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

Steven Spielberg says he "would not be the right person" to serve as an ambassador for humanity when we meet aliens. The filmmaker says that he "would really look forward to" a real-life Disclosure ...

The desolate, wind-swept desert of the Paracas Peninsula on the southern coast of Peru holds one of the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world. In 1928, the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Julio ...