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

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 ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

As for those salt clouds, the salt is not table salt or even Pink Himalayan Rock Salt, though that would go splendidly with ...

Space always throws up some new surprises, doesn't it? Now, for the first time ever, the Euclid telescope has given us a peek ...