The Fermi Paradox asks a simple but unsettling question: if the universe is so vast, why haven’t we found evidence of alien ...

Space contains objects far more extreme than our Sun, including neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, white dwarfs, and black ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the ...

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

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

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

There have been around 945 episodes of Star Trek, spread across more than a dozen shows, aired over sixty years. Yet for all the times Starfleet crew members have probed the intricacies of alien civil ...

I was trying to watch a TED Talk the other day — British mathematician Hannah Fry discussing ‘The Mathematics of Love’ — but ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

Elvis Presley in Concert" convinces you that the King is the greatest entertainer who ever lived. By the end of it, he's a god. Director Baz Luhrmann claims he made this Imax documentary so that any ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

Elon Musk had some bizarre things to say at a recent xAI meeting. Credit: Hakan Nural/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images And in an unusual move, xAI posted the entire 45-minute meeting online. The most ...