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Steven Spielberg's claims that aliens have already visited Earth have drawn a mixed but pointed scientists' reaction this week, with astrophysicists in the UK and Australia stressing that while ...

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Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should ...

Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

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Alien Earth Season 2 begins filming in London with Tracey Ullman, Sam Spruell, and Jerome Flynn joining the FX series. Their ...

Professor Carol Oliver suggests that time dilation, a cosmic phenomenon, may deter aliens from visiting Earth, as ...

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

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...