In the quiet, dusty expanse of Mars, some of the most profound scientific breakthroughs happen entirely by accident. In May ...

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

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Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

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NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered one of the most intriguing clues yet in humanity's search for life beyond Earth.

A strange interstellar comet discovered last year and speculated by a prominent astronomer to be an alien spacecraft could be older than our Solar System, according to a new study. The comet, first ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Wildlife explorer Forrest Galante traveled to Cape Cod Bay to film basking sharks for a new Discovery Channel project. Galante noted that basking sharks are often mistaken for great white sharks but ...