The 3I/ATLAS threw off over 13.5 million metric tons of water in the month after perihelion, a plume so large that it caused “comet activity” to stop appearing like a fuzzy telescope view and start to ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

For over two decades, millions volunteered their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial civilisations. People around the world have wished for the day we discover an ...

Astronomers recently carried out a radio scan of the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS as it passed near Earth. The object, which originated outside the solar system, has drawn attention since its ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

A new study is proposing the idea that life on other worlds may not look like life as we know it. A research team dug into a type of reaction known as autocatalysis—a self-perpetuating reaction—long ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

At San Diego Comic-Con today, the cast and director of Alien: Romulus joined a Hall H full of fans for a panel celebrating the upcoming film. And that panel included a never-before-seen extended ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

The vast, silent void between the stars occasionally coughs up a visitor that sets the scientific world—and the internet—ablaze. When the interstellar wanderer known as 3I/ATLAS first appeared on our ...