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.

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

There have been around 945 episodes of Star Trek, spread across more than a dozen shows, aired over sixty years. Yet for all the times Starfleet crew members have probed the intricacies of alien civil ...

Aura readers, quantum life coaches, and “starseeds” came together at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles: “There's a consensus that ‘first contact’ is not far away" In a packed ballroom in Los ...

I was trying to watch a TED Talk the other day — British mathematician Hannah Fry discussing ‘The Mathematics of Love’ — but ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

The curious minds at What If explore the possibility of an alien civilization existing on Proxima b, imagining how they might ...

Elon Musk had some bizarre things to say at a recent xAI meeting. Credit: Hakan Nural/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images And in an unusual move, xAI posted the entire 45-minute meeting online. The most ...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy just made a tremendous change to the Prime Directive, the guiding principle of Starfleet that’s been central to the franchise for 60 years. Formally codified in 2383, the ...