The White House has appointed Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to lead a new scientific advisory team investigating unidentified ...

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

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

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

Since the 1960s, scientists working with SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) have been monitoring the universe for artificial radio signals. The idea is simple. If another civilization ...

Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced ...

When Illumination founder and chief executive Chris Meledandri earlier this month received a star on the Hollywood Walk of ...

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 ...

A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to ...

Even at this early stage in our spacefaring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other solar systems, even if that was not their original intention. Five robotic ...