New research shows many people vastly underestimate other people's beliefs in extraterrestrial life. Is social stigma keeping ...

The Trump Administration wants Anthropic’s A.I. model, Claude, to act like an obedient soldier; the tech firm argues that that could lead down a dangerous path.

In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

SETI researchers may have missed alien signals due to a cosmic phenomenon that distorts narrowband radio waves, new research says.

As models like Gemini and Claude evolve, their simulated personalities can drift in strange directions—raising deeper questions about how AI systems think and decide.

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...

The science is accessible and Ryan Gosling is a superb Everyman in the excellent space adventure "Project Hail Mary," based on Andy Weir's novel.

Turbulent plasma near distant stars could blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems - making them ...

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes could travel between planets on asteroids, meaning humans could be descended ...

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 ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...