Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

"Human exploration of Titan is not a question of physics. It is a question of time, technology and commitment." ...

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In July 2025, astronomers spotted something remarkable passing through our Solar System, an object that had not come from ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

A study suggests that stellar plasma may distort alien signals, complicating SETI's search for extraterrestrial life by ...

AI anthropomorphism is a documented crisis in LLM science: a new Microsoft paper found more than half of 300 studies assumed ...

A rare visitor from another star system has undergone one of the most extensive technosignature searches ever conducted on an ...

Isa mystery beast that frightened Maine residents and preyed on pets a dog-wolf hybrid or something alien? A lab in Toronto is doing DNA tests to try to find out. For 15 years, residents in ...

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

In 2016, during the first Trump campaign, I wrote an article asking whether American democracy could survive the reduction of politics to entertainment. At the time, the question seemed exaggerated to ...

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 ...