As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

The main focus of the trip is to study the effects of long-term spaceflight on the body, but the test is also a side mission.

NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

Astronomers have reported the discovery of an unusual X-ray transient detected by the Einstein Probe that does not fit any ...

AI anthropomorphism is a documented crisis in LLM science: a new Microsoft paper found more than half of 300 studies assumed ...

A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.

Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what it is could be crucial ...

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 ...

A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to ...

Steven Spielberg is in his aliens exist era — but in truth, he’s been there since at least 1977. That’s when the director ...