What is the most important step that humanity must take to avoid extinction? According to the late physicist Stephen Hawking, the answer lies far beyond Earth. One of his most striking warnings ...

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.

Alien: Earth premiered on FX last year, and lead star Sydney Chandler has now revealed when Season 2 begins shooting in ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” Richard Feynman’s reflection lingers because it feels personal.

Although they were popular at the time, sci-fi series like Babylon 5 and The Sarah Jane Adventures, feel like they were meant ...

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 ...

Vast has raised $500 million in new funding, which the California startup will put toward its goal of getting private space ...

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another." ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.