Voyager 1’s long, unsettling silence has finally been broken, but not with the clean engineering data mission controllers had ...

For nearly fifty years, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has used radio telescopes to scan the heavens for signs of alien technology. But scientists still do not agree about whether ...

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To Bezos, that detail said everything. Even in the harshest conditions, humans chose to create something beautiful. That ...

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A half-century ago humanity sent its first postcard to the stars, carried by a narrow beam of radio waves. It was November 16, 1974—a turbulent time on planet Earth. The cold war was reaching its ...

The limited series, also starring Jessica Frances Dukes and Aaron Tveit, is set to premiere on MGM+ on Dec. 1 A new thrilling sci-fi series is on its way! PEOPLE can exclusively premiere the first ...

All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...

That striking notion of humanity grasping the finality of life before understanding its unfolding appears in “Zetsumetsu no Hakken” (The discovery of extinction) co-authored by Japanese paleontologist ...