When you look back at ’90s and 2000s sci-fi, it’s amazing how one movie with a giant stone ring changed virtually everything.

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us ...

First contact with extraterrestrial intelligence may be anything but subtle. Researchers argue that our initial signals from alien worlds will likely be loud, dramatic, and indicative of civilizations ...

But now, 60 years after the Prime Directive was introduced to Star Trek lore, Starfleet Academy has just evolved the ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after more than two decades.

There is a scene in the movie version of Carl Sagan’s book Contact where the main character, an astronomer who has detected the first radio signal from an alien civilization, is being considered for ...

By examining the potential existence of Dyson spheres, a University of Glasgow scientist aims to guide the search for alien ...

Embarking on a spur of the moment astronomy lesson, Musk explained that the sun makes up some 99.8% of mass of the solar system, and that Jupiter, the biggest planet, is just kind of a rounding error ...

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could ...

I played the entirety of Alan Turing-inspired, enigma-cracking war game TR-49 on my Steam Deck, but it's not verified for ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

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