Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb claims humanity missed a historic chance to find alien life on interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, warning it may have been a spacecraft on a seeding mission.

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Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

James Gunn promised a DC Universe built on gods and monsters, and the first wave of those monsters is already here. His new continuity does not treat giant creatures as disposable action scenes. It ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Water is not the only liquid that could support life. This video explores why ammonia has the right chemical properties to act as a solvent for alien biology and how it expands where scientists might ...

When astronomers search for life beyond Earth, they usually start with a familiar question: could a particular exoplanet support biology like ours? Liquid water, mild temperatures, and Earth-like ...