The "Star Trek" franchise features a destructive super-weapon known as the Planet Killer, but the device's origins have remained a mystery for decades.
A mysterious interstellar visitor sparks fears of alien contact as Baba Vanga's prophecy predicts a colossal spacecraft in 2026.
But now, 60 years after the Prime Directive was introduced to Star Trek lore, Starfleet Academy has just evolved the ...
A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after more than two decades.
There is a scene in the movie version of Carl Sagan’s book Contact where the main character, an astronomer who has detected the first radio signal from an alien civilization, is being considered for ...
By examining the potential existence of Dyson spheres, a University of Glasgow scientist aims to guide the search for alien ...
Embarking on a spur of the moment astronomy lesson, Musk explained that the sun makes up some 99.8% of mass of the solar system, and that Jupiter, the biggest planet, is just kind of a rounding error ...
Dario Amodei warns that superhuman AI arriving within two years could trigger mass unemployment, bioterrorism and authoritarian control, unless humanity gets serious about the risks right now.
Elon Musk didn't pitch a new rocket. He pitched a new reality. Speaking at SpaceX's Starbase facility in Texas earlier this ...
New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could ...
I played the entirety of Alan Turing-inspired, enigma-cracking war game TR-49 on my Steam Deck, but it's not verified for ...
Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...