A comet from another star system is putting on a show that looks uncannily like a heartbeat, with bright jets of gas and dust ...

At first glance, the Drake Equation looks like a hopeful scientific tool. In reality, it leads to disturbing possibilities about isolation, extinction, and survival. This breakdown explains the ...

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A movie would be shot the normal way, with a single-lensed camera, then shipped off to a giant team of rotoscopers who would ...

The question sounds ripped straight from a sci-fi blockbuster like Arrival or 2001: A Space Odyssey, yet it became a very real source of furious, months-long online debate. The cosmic object at the ...

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The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

The comet 3I/ATLAS is taking a long holiday journey this year. It's visiting from another solar system altogether. It's the third interstellar object recorded passing through our solar system.