Even at this early stage in our spacefaring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other ...

A new SETI study suggests we may be overlooking alien signals not because they aren't there, but because their own stars are scrambling them before they escape into space. Turbulent plasma and ...

Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally ...

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

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of ...

Few writers have shaped modern imagination like H. G. Wells, whose visionary ideas helped define science fiction and predicted technologies far ahead of his time. His 1898 classic The War of the ...

To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.

Wherever you are reading this, look around you. Every living thing you can see – other people, pets, birds flying past, trees, flowers, mushrooms, fish – is here because of unions between different ...

Three years ago, during an expedition at the bottom of the Gulf of Alaska, a submarine detected a golden orb that contrasted with surrounding rocks. Its smooth, organic surface did not resemble that ...

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

There are films we watch, and then there are films we carry with us. Project Hail Mary belongs firmly to the latter. It hasn’t just found an audience; it has found a rare kind of emotional unanimity.

There's a definite buzz going around this month about aliens from other worlds, or hadn't you noticed? Former US President Obama kicked things off a couple of weeks ago with his startling admission ...