It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Documents might help scientists shed light on unexplained phenomena and government secrets, experts said.

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

On Feb. 14, former President Barack Obama was asked a question during an interview with political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen ...

From the very beginning, Star Trek has been a story of exploration; it’s literally baked into the franchise’s famous opening line, with the promise that the starship Enterprise was boldly going where ...

Exploring divine authority, political power, sectarian conflict, and moral leadership in a globalized, technologically advancing world.

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if alien signals have already reached Earth without us noticing, what ...

A live radio broadcast was interrupted just as a caller made an extraordinary claim . In the Mojave Desert, a lone phone booth rang for years despite standing miles from civilization. And one man ...

Imagine if the nearest intelligent aliens were not across the street, not across the solar system, but on the far side of the Milky Way, some 33,000 light-years away from Earth. That’s the scenario ...