Sohrab Rahvar and Shahin Rouhani’s recent paper, “Constraining the Lifespan of Intelligent Technological Civilization in the Galaxy,” lays it out bluntly: Advanced civilizations last roughly 5,000 ...

In the affluent, technocratic Alexandria Colony, people are disappearing. And witnesses are dying in grisly, mysterious ways—it all reeks of Xenomorphs. At a loss, the Hume City police call in Special ...

National Geographic archaeologist George E. Stuart reported in 1975 on the scientists who sought to decode the ancient language—and the looters who stood in their way.

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

Sometime in the spring or summer of 1958, the five members of The Quarrymen went to Phillips Sound Recording Service in Liverpool — really just the front room of recordist Percy Phillips house — and ...

Former President Barack Obama recently sparked headlines, social media debates, and a fresh wave of UFO chatter after a brief remark during a podcast interview. The comment quickly ricocheted across ...

Read on to discover our ranked selection of some of the most ambitious sci-fi masterpieces of all time across the worlds of film and television. Written and directed by James Cameron, Avatar follows a ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

The curious minds at What If explore the possibility of an alien civilization existing on Proxima b, imagining how they might live, communicate, and interact with humanity. Marjorie Taylor Greene ...

"I really wanna see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space. Just going like 'shoom, shoom,' just one after the other." Reading time 5 minutes At the risk of stating ...

Elon Musk had some bizarre things to say at a recent xAI meeting. Credit: Hakan Nural/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images And in an unusual move, xAI posted the entire 45-minute meeting online. The most ...