Last week NASA announced the "clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars". Amazing news, or a "crushing blow" for humanity?

A recently published paper opens an intriguing discussion: could Earth have been terraformed by advanced extraterrestrial beings? This bold hypothesis, while controversial, paves the way for fresh ...

A new book charts the millennia-old history of our fascination with aliens, and how myth transformed into research.

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The very "Endowment Model" these committees are tasked with overseeing—a complex and costly strategy heavy in alternative ...

To come up with a result as weird as this, you need to be using some equally mind-bending math – and indeed, this paradox comes to us from the world of set theoretic geometry. If that’s not familiar ...