Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

The universe is vast, ancient, and mostly silent. For decades, scientists have pointed their telescopes toward distant stars, ...

We may be missing out on ultra-narrow radio signals sent by technologically advanced civilizations, a new study claims. The study shows that a star’s violent eruptions near an alien planet may distort ...

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 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

“There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember.” That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...