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

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gone from obscure visitor to front‑page mystery, as a cascade of new images reveals behavior ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

Stan Van Gundy, a former NBA head coach and current broadcaster for the league’s games on Amazon Prime Video, suggested that San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama should have his nickname changed.

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

What would you do if you discovered that aliens were real, and a lot closer than you’d imagined? Would you be awestruck or terrified? That’s the premise of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, and in ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

Like any long-running franchise, there’s always some wacky non-canonical ephemera spinning out of it. Star Trek is no different. And one of the wackier ones came in the early days of Star Trek: The ...

Steven Spielberg poses with the animatronic puppet from ET at Carlo Rambaldi’s studio in April 1982 - Mark Sennet/Getty Images Shortly after ET the Extra-Terrestrial was released in 1982, Ronald ...