New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke University. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” Richard Feynman’s reflection lingers because it feels personal.

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

When the two species got together tens of thousands of years ago, the hookups may have often involved a male Neanderthal and a female human, according to a new study. The findings, described February ...

To hell with your Fermi paradox: we’ve got presidential declarations. During a podcast interview with political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen released Sunday, former president Barack Obama casually ...

It is often suggested that this may have already happened: alien technosignatures may have reached Earth during the past six decades but have gone unnoticed. If that is true, it suggests that more ...

Friday’s exuberant horror comedy “Cold Storage” involves long-hidden alien matter that mutates in seconds to not so comically explode into a zillion ever-expanding bits that could destroy all ...

Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time. Sure, there are plenty of ...

Generative AI is biology’s new playground. The technology powering popular chatbots can also dream up new, entirely novel versions of life’s most basic molecules, from DNA to proteins. Once the domain ...