Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

A leading astrobiologist argues that advanced aliens may well exist but are likely giving Earth a miss, thanks to vast distances, brutal energy costs and our own hostile atmosphere.

(University of Birmingham) The quantum world is mind-bogglingly counterintuitive: at the smallest scales, basic physical qualities like position and speed are murky, and time as we know it doesn't ...

Deep within Uranus and Neptune, immense pressure and heat are transforming carbon into diamonds that rain down through the ...

You may have even been tempted yourself to put down cash on your favorite pop-culture hunch. But the recent Google case ...

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

Last summer, a NASA-funded asteroid impact warning system detected a mysterious object speeding through the solar system. Scientists determined the object had entered the solar system from deep space, ...

However, despite the theories, a fresh radio search has turned up no sign that the object, now named 3I/ATLAS, is emitting anything artificial, despite months of claims that the interstellar body ...

The mystery of Peru's "conehead" mummies has baffled scientists for decades, and new DNA tests on the mummies' teeth have ...

The New York Knicks have built a historic 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals, becoming just the third team in history to win the opening pair of games on the road. But their advantage in the series doesn’t ...

Astronomers may have witnessed one of the rarest and most dramatic cosmic events ever seen: a long-sought intermediate-mass ...