This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

For decades, the question of whether life exists beyond Earth has been the domain of science fiction writers and late-night ...

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

OpenAI published results on June 17, 2026, from a three-month collaboration with Polish chemistry startup Molecule.one that marks the first publicly documented instance of a frontier AI model acting ...

For years, the Fermi Paradox has been framed as a mystery about alien civilizations and why none seem to be out there. But this episode flips that question around and asks something stranger: what if ...

Share on Pinterest What does the ‘world-first’ vaccine designed by artificial intelligence mean for public health? Image credit: Luis Velasco/Getty Images Researchers at the University of Cambridge ...

In 2019, entrepreneur Bryan Johnson began to experiment on himself by taking daily injections of rapamycin. This immunosuppressant drug is typically used to prevent organ rejection after transplants, ...

US firm Vast is developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity to keep astronauts healthy on deep-space missions and push the search for alien life.

Steven Spielberg and aliens go back a long time – they're the cinematic equivalent of peanut butter and jelly. And the history of that successful pairing has led to his new sci-fi thriller "Disclosure ...

Taken from above, this annotated image shows a school ground in Spain and the motions of teenage participants as indicated by the dots and lines. Credit: 2026 Echeverría-Huarte et al. Put a small ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...