The White House has appointed Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to lead a new scientific advisory team investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), commonly known as UFOs. The move is part of ...

The Harvard astrophysicist has devoted years—and thousands of interviews—to the idea that mysterious objects streaking ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

The International Space Station is now home to an even more capable quantum laboratory, where NASA cools atoms to nearly ...

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

The main focus of the trip is to study the effects of long-term spaceflight on the body, but the test is also a side mission.

AI anthropomorphism is a documented crisis in LLM science: a new Microsoft paper found more than half of 300 studies assumed ...

A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.

SETI scientists searched the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 15 individuals, including 11 illegal aliens, in connection with an alleged $1.4 ...

Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what it is could be crucial ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...