SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...
Pixar boss Pete Docter is under fire for a remark he made about the decision to cut LGBTQ+ representation from the sci-fi ...
Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of ...
The merging between New Age beliefs and conspiracies — dubbed “conspirituality” by researcher Charlotte Ward and sociologist David Voas in 2011 — is inescapable at the expo: in panels offering secret ...
Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?
Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...
A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.