Did the CIA's controversial MKUltra program target children in juvenile detention centers? During a recent congressional hearing, witnesses alleged that vulnerable minors were subjected to unethical ...

This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1988, the Soviet Union launched two of its most ambitious spacecraft ever built not toward Mars itself, but toward one of ...

Astronomers may have witnessed one of the rarest and most dramatic cosmic events ever seen: a long-sought intermediate-mass ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

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

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 ...

The best Steven Spielberg movies include Disclosure Day, ET, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, The ...