Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping argues as much, and his “Eschatian Hypothesis” reimagines the way ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is ...

The March chat shared details of a planned attack on Houthi rebels in Somalia. A Pentagon watchdog concluded that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked exposing sensitive information that could have ...

It's difficult to believe that, given the enormous extent of outer space around us, there aren't other life forms out there. Humanity has long been intrigued by the idea, with movies, books, and TV ...

Ever since astronomers first detected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in July, speculation about its true nature has run wild. Some experts speculate it isn’t a comet at all but rather an extraterrestrial ...

Astronomers have detected the first-ever "radio signal" coming from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, right as it passed the halfway mark on its oneway trip through the solar system. And while this may ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

In 1977, the Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope received an unusually strong narrowband radio signal, leading to widespread excitement about the possibility of having encountered evidence ...

Alien Earth’s first season has ended, and the important bit of that is “first” season. What seemed like it might have been a miniseries was in fact meant to have multiple seasons, and now we have some ...

Alien: Earth premieres with two episodes on Tuesday, August 12, and drops one episode per week after that. FX dropped the first two episodes of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth, and it’s clear from the ...

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