With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy—with every new advanced telescope, we ...

Steven Spielberg once again made a movie that focuses on aliens coming to Earth, so it's probably worth watching some other great alien invasion films.

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A new SETI study argues that turbulent space weather around distant stars can smear out ultra‑narrow alien radio signals, meaning technosignatures may already have reached Earth.

Astronomers have identified GJ 3378b, a super-Earth located 25 light-years away, in the habitable zone of its star, raising ...

The deep ocean is home to one of the strangest phenomena on Earth: bioluminescence. Scientists estimate that more than 75% of deep-sea animals can produce their own light, using it to hunt, hide, ...

MOVE over Mulder and Scully, Bradley Walsh is opening his own X Files. The TV favourite is swapping The Chase for close encounters of a different kind as the presenter travels the globe gathering ...

For sixty years, SETI built its search around one assumption: alien radio signals would arrive as razor-sharp frequency spikes, clean and unmistakable against the cosmic background. Think of it like ...

If you ever wondered what a sci-fi Monster Hunter game would look like, a promising new indie game on Steam provides the ...

When people think of Gene Roddenberry, they usually think of Star Trek, which is understandable considering that the franchise—which launched 60 years ago this September—became his greatest success ...