The universe is vast, ancient, and mostly silent. For decades, scientists have pointed their telescopes toward distant stars, ...
Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...
Dyson sphere stability — once considered an impossible physics problem — may be within reach. A peer-reviewed paper in ...
Astronomer Dr. David Kipping argued that we're more likely to meet a "unusually loud" extraterrestrials whose empire is on the decline. When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to ...
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 ...
The universe is vast and teeming with stars – but if intelligent life exists, it may not be able to visit Earth.
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 ...