Director Ridley Scott recalls the time he received an unexpected call from Stanley Kubrick inquiring about the grossest scene ...

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could ...

A scientist at the University of Glasgow has delved into the possible existence of ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

Is it alien? Is it natural? Those questions have followed the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS since it entered our solar system last year from beyond our own star system. A new study released ...

"We all would have been thrilled to find technosignatures coming from 3I/ATLAS, but they're just not there." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

The third known visitor from another star system, Comet 3I/ATLAS, has been racing through the Solar System with just enough weirdness to ignite a familiar debate: is it natural or could it be ...

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