Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

The guy pouring my beer in Anchorage told me that he knew there was no truth to decades-old rumors about a research facility 200 miles to the northeast. Nobody was up there talking to aliens or ...

Ryan Gosling’s new science fiction movie shows an astronaut who saves the world and dies to self. We modern people have a tendency to give in proportion to what we get. If I reach out to someone else ...

The Colorado company Lux Aeterna wants to help open up the space economy with a fleet of fully reusable satellites, and it just raised to some money to help make that happen.

When it was first published in 2021, Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary quickly cemented his reputation as one of the most entertaining voices in modern science fiction. Weir had already captivated ...

Before Star Trek returned to theaters in the form of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979, the Enterprise crew nearly came back in a very different form. The plan was a new television series titled ...

A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.

Turbulent plasma near distant stars could blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems - making them ...