Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

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 ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

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

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

President Trump had gone to the 2024 election promising to disclose everything about one of his MAGA fan base’s favourite conspiracies: that aliens are real, aliens are among us, and aliens secretly ...

A computer expert pulled off the 'biggest military computer hack of all time,' breaching NASA's system to find what he said ...

With the release, the American public could learn what, if anything, the government has documented about the unexplained ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

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

The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft has captured detailed images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, offering ...