Maybe the real monster in the Alien franchise isn’t actually the killer alien. Because behind the acid blood and jump scares ...

We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research ...

Even at this early stage in our spacefaring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other ...

A new SETI study suggests we may be overlooking alien signals not because they aren't there, but because their own stars are scrambling them before they escape into space. Turbulent plasma and ...

There is something almost offensive about a sky so full of stars and so empty of company. That is what gives Richard ...

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of ...

Few writers have shaped modern imagination like H. G. Wells, whose visionary ideas helped define science fiction and predicted technologies far ahead of his time. His 1898 classic The War of the ...

Three years ago, during an expedition at the bottom of the Gulf of Alaska, a submarine detected a golden orb that contrasted with surrounding rocks. Its smooth, organic surface did not resemble that ...

In this playlist I show you how to understand set theory. I introduce sets as venn diagrams, mapping and as sets of numbers. With sets we look at how to find the union, compliment, and intersection of ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for extraterrestrial life by looking for specific signals from individual planets. However, a new study argues that this method could overlook a larger pattern.

A new ‘agnostic biosignature’ method searches for patterns across exoplanets, suggesting alien life could be detected by how it spreads and reshapes entire planetary systems. The search for a second ...

Adapt or die: How do you grow and evolve to fit into an alien environment? How do you create change in the face of overwhelming power? And how do you tell your extraterrestrial overlords you need a ...