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It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

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

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Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

It is guaranteed that any future advancements we make in the sciences must reduce to the current laws we understand when tested in the environments in which they were developed. Einstein's gravity ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Shared physics, math and elements may let humans communicate with aliens via numbers or signals, with China’s giant telescope likely to detect their messages first. Senate to vote Friday on pathway to ...

Assuming our solar system’s newest interstellar object isn’t an alien mothership sent here to menace us, humankind still hasn’t spotted any signs of extraterrestrial life, let alone intelligence — ...