ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth ...

THE INCREDIBLE VANISHING BILLIONAIRE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t expect to spend the last year of his term in an all ...

Swimming holes are nature’s version of a reward system. They are rarely easy to reach, often hidden, and never accidental.

UC Berkeley's SETI@home project, a crowdsourced scientific research initiative, identified nearly 12 billion potential ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

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

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

The afternoon I saw Tracy Letts’ excellent, itchy Bug on Broadway – an earlier scheduled performance had been canceled – the ...

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...

Three Key Findings No known space object currently threatens Earth, but monitoring continues around the clock. Extreme solar ...