For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking ...

Until the U.S. government has data or samples of alien material that can be shared, the story of extraterrestrial visitors is ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

The Supreme Court is confronting whether a US tech firm can face legal action for designing a digital surveillance system in Silicon Valley that allegedly facilitated a foreign power’s atrocities ...

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes of science. Now a mix of genetic clues, asteroid samples and tough little ...

If you asked philosophers what the most mysterious thing about the mind is, most of them would say: consciousness. It’s just ...

Scientists at Texas A&M University have unveiled the Detonation Research Test Facility, the largest academic ...

Here is a selection of ten games we think are the best of the best releasing in May 2026. This month continues to bring ...

In "Directive 8020", a crew of astronauts fights an alien. Supermassive Games' title focuses on interactive decisions rather ...

Kansas sculptor Mike Miller winds string through a red wire-and-wood sculpture topped with painted locust seed pods and spiky orbs from a sweet gum tree. The Millers' show at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center ...

New UCR research shows that the search for life beyond Earth could benefit from a statistical approach that prioritizes ...