Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

Beneath 70 % of Earth’s surface lies a realm where sonar picks up strange shapes, sunken cities and possibly alien structures.

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

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 ...

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

Elon Musk had some bizarre things to say at a recent xAI meeting. - Hakan Nural/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images And in an unusual move, xAI posted the entire 45-minute meeting online. No time to watch ...

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...

Rotello has worked with Patti Smith and was friends with Hilly Kristal, the late owner of CBGB, the iconic club where Smith, Blondie and the Ramones got their start.

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 ...

The science-fiction thriller Prometheus is streaming on Netflix from today (16 February 2026). The movie follows a crew of a deep-space research vessel as they travel to a distant moon after ...