The universe is vast, ancient, and mostly silent. For decades, scientists have pointed their telescopes toward distant stars, ...

If an alien civilization is millions of years ahead of us, their technology would be so advanced it would be completely indistinguishable from magic.

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be ...