Just three decades ago, astronomers had no evidence that planets commonly orbited other stars. Then in 2025, NASA confirmed ...

That band of light is our home we know as the Milky Way galaxy. But it is impossible to see the galaxy as a whole with our ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

Once small enough, these technograins might gain a trip out of its host solar system by a solar wind that overcomes the ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far more than all previous missions combined. It will look deep into unexplored ...

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 ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth ...

This week, a study centered around tickling apes has found we may have been chuckling this way for 15 million years, the ...

When interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile on July 1, 2025, it quickly attracted ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The largest digital camera ever built is starting to capture images of unseen corners of the universe.