A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from extraterrestrials. The paper, penned by researchers at the SETI (Search ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

This ship was huge. It was like a city-sized ship. And there was hundreds of beings on board,” said Debbie Solaris, a military veteran and one of six panelists sharing their alien encounters with a ...

Space contains objects far more extreme than our Sun, including neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, white dwarfs, and black holes. Each produces radically different environments shaped by intense gravity ...

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

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.

Mankind encountering forces beyond their understanding has long been a great playground for horror, as exemplified by these ...

Engineers at UC Davis have built a remarkable device that creates power at night by tapping into something we rarely think ...

Cuba's envoy to Ottawa says the U.S. is trying to overthrow his country's communist government — but Canada's foreign service says the regime's hold on Havana is "quite stable." ...

President Donald Trump has plenty of work to do to distract from a growing list of crises. His next carrot on a stick: aliens.