The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

Far beyond the reach of any probe, astronomers have found a gas giant whose atmosphere behaves less like a familiar planet and more like a special effect from a big-budget space epic. Orbiting a ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

FLAMINGO simulation maps the universe but reveals a puzzling mismatch: galaxies cluster less than theory predicts.