NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good idea of where to look.

Stellar activity and plasma turbulence could distort narrow radio signals before they leave their home planetary systems, potentially explaining part of the long silence in the search for ...

The universe is a place of unimaginable beauty and wonder—shimmering galaxies that dance across the cosmic stage, nebulae ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Jessica Chastain confronts a mysterious Mandy Patinkin in a new sneak peek from her hit sci-fi audio drama, Audible's The ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

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

Does NASA have files on aliens? Jared Isaacman says no, and tells Ross Douthat on “Interesting Times” that extraterrestrials would pick a more exciting locale to visit than America’s naval bases.

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has slammed a seemingly far-fetched proposal to intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with a spacecraft, claiming that we’re putting energy in the wrong places.

Disclosure may not reveal alien visitors, but it will reveal something equally important: how science, measurement and ...