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"All these discoveries from pioneering missions like Voyager and New Horizons teach us how little we know about what lies ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

Some of these approaches may show promise, but new research indicates much of today’s AI is even more easily duped by false ...

The spacecraft that famously brought asteroid Ryugu samples to Earth in 2020 has flown right by another space rock.

Clines Corners, a historic Route 66 travel stop east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, still attracts visitors seeking gas, ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

Alien probes could already be hiding somewhere in our Solar System – and our current surveys are nowhere near good enough to rule them out, according to a NASA‑linked study presented this month by ...

In ‘Disclosure Day’ the director reflects on how humanity would confront the discovery that we are not alone, something he is increasingly ‘convinced’ of ...

The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...