Theological debates suggest alien encounters might challenge religious traditionalists more than dismantle faith.

A new Keck Observatory study indicates that giant planets can spin faster than more massive brown dwarfs, revealing important ...

An artist's impression of a hot Jupiter's magnetic field. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick) The hottest giant planets in the galaxy should, in theory, have the fastest ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

A shocking pattern appears again and again throughout modern history. From wartime propaganda and emotional media campaigns ...

Legendary movie director Steven Spielberg sparked a viral reaction with recent comments questioning how alien disclosure ...

For generations, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science’s biggest mistakes: claiming a ...

Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness is likely 'substrate flexible', challenging the ...

It's the latest example of Justice Department attorneys claiming broad and unreviewable powers for the president.

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been guided by one hopeful assumption: somewhere in the galaxy, ...

Steven Spielberg returns to one of his favorite subjects in "Disclosure Day," but there are lot of things in the sci-fi ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.