Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the mystery of extraterrestrial life — with billions of planets out there, are we truly alone, ...

The Great Filter theory proposes that advanced civilizations may self-destruct or be destroyed before achieving interstellar ...

Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don't know, according to Ulf Danielsson ...

I/ATLAS was first discovered on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS telescope system in Hawaii. Its hyperbolic orbit, a trajectory not ...

The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

In 2002, two astronomers analyzing data from more than 200,000 galaxies decided to answer a question nobody asked: if you ...

This idea was once thought to lie beyond the reach of scientific inquiry,” said physicist Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia.

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

The popular consensus among scientists is that the universe will continue expanding until the bitter end. A team of ...

A new study suggests that, at least mathematically speaking, the idea doesn’t hold up, as some facets of reality can’t be explain purely algorithmically.

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...