From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

It's no surprise that SpaceX is breaking in the year. Elon Musk's company launched a whopping 165 orbital missions in 2025 — ...

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

If non-human intelligence has ever interacted with Earth, certain locations would be far more likely than others. This episode examines five regions where geography, electromagnetic anomalies, ...

Boom Studios' March 2026 solicits launch Baby Garfield, as Mary Sue, Marian Heretic, MMPR/TMNT III & Last Day Of HP Lovecraft ...

On Dec. 19, 3I/ATLAS will be about 1.8 astronomical units away (170 million miles), almost twice as far as the average distance between Earth and the Sun (1AU orr about 93 million miles), according to ...

Well, another year of soaking up much of what the entertainment world had to offer is just about in the books. I’ve compiled ...

Pluribus” put its two unlikely heroes on the path to saving the world in the Season 1 finale, but not without some messy ...

Life can be scary, and a lot of times we push certain fears aside just to get through the day. But when those fears show up as undeniable facts, they hit a bit differently. Just like a small fall on ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

Polling shows that nearly half of Americans now believe aliens have visited this planet—and that the number who aren't sure has dropped by two-thirds. The reasons why, experts say, are complicated.