A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...
Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...
In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...
First Prize Winner: Edge of presence. Image Courtesy of Buildner Buildner has announced the results of its Re-Form: New Life for Old Spaces, an international ideas competition examining the adaptive ...
Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large... Scientists have been studying the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e ...
The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...
Imagine that you’re an astronomer conducting a radio survey of the heavens. Maybe you’re searching for pulsars, or radio galaxies, or just mapping neutral hydrogen. Then, out of nowhere, you detect a ...
A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search for life beyond our solar system. The discovery of the exoplanet orbiting in ...
Here’s the thing those trailers didn’t tell you: Predator: Badlands is absolutely chock-full of synths. Not only do we get Fanning as Thia (a bisected robot who offers to help the film’s Predator ...
Everyone loves a good alien invasion story, preferably one with city-sized ships and physics-defying tech. There's just one big problem with that. The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100 to 400 ...