The first unmistakable sign of extraterrestrial technology may not arrive as a calm greeting. It may look more like a flare.

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel and also the book The Martian, is fundamentally an optimist. Both stories ...

What if humanity’s first unmistakable sign of alien technology is not a greeting, but a distress flare? That possibility sits at the center of a growing idea in technosignature research: the signals ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel ...

But even if it were to realise that this was largely a matter of etiquette, it would miss the nuances of each opening gambit.

The Supreme Court has a lot of problems with the Trump administration’s theory for restricting birthright citizenship.

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A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...

Sci-fi fans can rejoice as the Alien franchise's entire collection, including classics and director's cuts, drops on a new streamer on April 1.

These findings suggest that the absence of past detections does not mean discovery is imminent. If extraterrestrial ...