Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

SETI scientists searched the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology ...

Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced ...

When Illumination founder and chief executive Chris Meledandri earlier this month received a star on the Hollywood Walk of ...

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 ...

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A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to ...

There is something almost offensive about a sky so full of stars and so empty of company. That is what gives Richard ...

Between the mid-1970s and early 1980s, two physicists, Michael Hart and Frank Tipler, published a controversial series of papers arguing that extraterrestrial intelligence didn't exist. As they argued ...

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

Star Trek fans' longstanding belief that V'Ger created the Borg is contradicted by several elements of the franchise's canon.

If and when SETI discovers alien life, then a revised Declaration of Principles guarantees that once the discovery has been verified, its disclosure will come soon thereafter. When you purchase ...