Engineers have demonstrated a hybrid probe that drills and melts ice simultaneously, proving the slushing concept across ...

Zach Cregger’s The Flood casts Jennifer Lawrence as the lead of a deep-space sci-fi thriller produced by Steven Spielberg. The film’s premise -- a crew encountering an alien artifact that warps time ...

As of September 5, 2026, NASA’s legendary Voyager 1 probe has been hurtling through the cosmic void for exactly 49 years. Launched from Cape Canaveral in the autumn of 1977, this intrepid robot has ...

Philip Johnston, co-founder and president of the Fermi Explorer Mission, stands on an outcrop in Chile’s Atacama Desert and points at Alpha Centauri in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Johnston and ...

Given the size and age of the universe, it should be full of species with technology far more advanced than our own. So where are they? The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click ...

Avi Loeb has suggested that humans themselves may be 'intelligent, self-replicating and self-repairing autonomous probes' built by an advanced alien civilisation, arguing in a new essay published ...

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 ...

An object from outside our solar system came hurtling past Earth last summer, and a team of scientists did something most people didn’t know was possible. They pointed a radio telescope at it and ...

New claims that the United States has recovered remains of four separate species of alien life are sending shockwaves throughout the UFO disclosure movement, further drumming up conversations ...

Most conversations about artificial intelligence are focused on Earth: jobs, misinformation, education, politics, science, regulation, consciousness, safety, and the future of human society. But ...