The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

Far beyond the reach of any probe, astronomers have found a gas giant whose atmosphere behaves less like a familiar planet and more like a special effect from a big-budget space epic. Orbiting a ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

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

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

The FLAMINGO super simulation maps the universe from its earliest moments but finds galaxies cluster less than cosmological ...

FLAMINGO simulation maps the universe but reveals a puzzling mismatch: galaxies cluster less than theory predicts.