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

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 ...

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

Isa mystery beast that frightened Maine residents and preyed on pets a dog-wolf hybrid or something alien? A lab in Toronto is doing DNA tests to try to find out. For 15 years, residents in ...

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 ...

For years, the Fermi Paradox has been framed as a mystery about alien civilizations and why none seem to be out there. But this episode flips that question around and asks something stranger: what if ...

Even at this early stage in our spacefaring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other solar systems, even if that was not their original intention. Five robotic ...

Steven Spielberg and aliens go back a long time – they're the cinematic equivalent of peanut butter and jelly. And the history of that successful pairing has led to his new sci-fi thriller "Disclosure ...

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 ...