There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” Richard Feynman’s reflection lingers because it feels personal.

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

There have been around 945 episodes of Star Trek, spread across more than a dozen shows, aired over sixty years. Yet for all the times Starfleet crew members have probed the intricacies of alien civil ...

I was trying to watch a TED Talk the other day — British mathematician Hannah Fry discussing ‘The Mathematics of Love’ — but ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

Elvis Presley in Concert" convinces you that the King is the greatest entertainer who ever lived. By the end of it, he's a god. Director Baz Luhrmann claims he made this Imax documentary so that any ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

The curious minds at What If explore the possibility of an alien civilization existing on Proxima b, imagining how they might ...