A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

The recent visit to our solar system by the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked speculation about whether it’s another ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

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Need a reminder of what's up in the farthest frontier of 'Star Trek' before 'Starfleet Academy'? Class is now in session.

"...an interstellar traveler will not correspond with its senders because there is no benefit to that": Prof Loeb ...

Underneath the episodic storylines about diplomatic summits and training missions, Starfleet Academy is attempting to break ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Elon Musk claims immortality may soon be possible through AI and space. His new idea involves storing human life stories in ...