Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

Signals from a distant world have pushed the search for alien life out of science fiction and into the realm of testable ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

The Hjortspring boat was essentially a very large canoe used in an ancient raid. In the 4th century BC, several boats ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

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 ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

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 ...

Cameron revealed what this choice was in a discussion with Michael Biehn on his Just Fooling About podcast, and it started when Biehn, who played Corporal Hicks in the film, asked Cameron if he was ...

A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. The ...

Life with gigantic thumbs can be a total drag on days when all I want to do is hold up a plate of food for Instagram but can't because I'm embarrassed about my gigantic thumbs. It also makes doing the ...

The theory, spearheaded by astronomer Michele Bannister and her investigative team at the University of Canterbury in New ...