Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

But the worst damage is to normal citizens in modern democracies who, unless they’ve sought it out for themselves, lack a clear idea of what the West stands for: It’s what Robert Maynard Hutchins ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if alien signals have already reached Earth without us noticing, what ...

Naturally, there aren’t quite as many cameos as you would get if Starfleet Academy was set a few centuries earlier; don’t expect Captain Picard cameos (although there’ll certainly be a lot of Easter ...

Elon Musk addressed a crowd at a Texas SpaceX facility, telling listeners about the “purpose of SpaceX.” That purpose, it turns out, is to “make ‘Star Trek’ real.” “We want to make Starfleet Academy ...

When some scientists and conspiracy theorists saw the strange trajectory of the space object 3I/ATLAS, some of them thought one thing: aliens. With a bizarre shape, an unusually precise trajectory, ...

Good news: One of the best movies of 2025, Bugonia, is now streaming on Peacock, free to anyone with a Peacock subscription. Bugonia is the fourth feature film collaboration between director Yorgos ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

More than half a century after humans set foot on the Moon, the final frontier still fuels our imagination. Back then, it was all about doing what had never been done before and doing it first. In ...