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

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

Scientists are raising concerns that we may be overlooking evidence of extraterrestrial life even when it is present. Hidden ...

A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.

SETI scientists searched the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology ...

The nature of space, time and the evolution of life on Earth mean it’s unlikely extraterrestrial life has visited our home planet.

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows that systems still fall short of top human expertise. Artificial intelligence has undergone its most scrupulous maths test yet ...

Steven Spielberg says he "would not be the right person" to serve as an ambassador for humanity when we meet aliens. The filmmaker says that he "would really look forward to" a real-life Disclosure ...

The desolate, wind-swept desert of the Paracas Peninsula on the southern coast of Peru holds one of the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world. In 1928, the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Julio ...

Steven Spielberg and aliens go back a long time – they're the cinematic equivalent of peanut butter and jelly. And the history of that successful pairing has led to his new sci-fi thriller “Disclosure ...

One of the inevitable side effects of the current AI boom has been a certain level of mistrust when it comes to communicating with machine intelligences. It's certainly not unfounded paranoia, either; ...

Artificial intelligence systems can now convince you they are human. Two large language models have passed the Turing test, which determines if a machine can “show the same intelligence as a human ...