From a primordial tree at the dawn of time to machine civilizations and their eventual collapse, this fictional world covers ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

Alien probes could already be hiding somewhere in our Solar System – and our current surveys are nowhere near good enough to rule them out, according to a NASA‑linked study presented this month by ...

The White House has appointed Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to lead a new scientific advisory team investigating unidentified ...

Billed as the “world’s first museum of AI arts,” Dataland uses wearables and troves of material from the Amazon to merge ...

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Immigration agents were looking for a different person when they shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop, officials ...

Do you remember when they said that in space, no one could hear you scream? The tagline for the cult classic Alien movie has, in a way, become a tagline for the whole subgenre of science-fiction, at ...

A Titan human mission is no longer just a wild idea from science fiction. Scientists are now starting to discuss it as a serious long-term goal after the Moon and Mars. That does not mean a crew is ...