A complete Cretaceous shellfish fossil. (University of Portsmouth) Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly ...

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

A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...

The pilots dubbed the fireballs “foo fighters” but had no idea what they were. Plasma? Enemy tech? Aliens? We still haven’t ...

The Great Filter theory suggests advanced civilisations may self-destruct before contacting others, explaining the universe's ...

Avi Loeb, a cosmologist who studied black holes and served as head of Harvard’s astronomy department until 2020, was recently appointed to helm a new scientific advisory council tasked with ...

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

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

Once it was clear that the finding was most likely real, the team took a closer look at the chemistry of the material nearest ...

NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets ...

He went on to found the Galileo Project at Harvard, with a stated mission to search for artifacts from alien civilizations. His team drew attention in 2023 when they used magnets to retrieve hundreds ...