Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...

When Doctor Who returned in 2005 its writers were faced with the unenviable task of reintroducing the series’ various ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're coming.

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Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...

'After the Movie, It Kind of Stuck With Me for a Bit' — Black Panther Star Michael B. Jordan Went to Therapy to Help ...

Most stars in the cosmos are small, cool red dwarfs, yet the only intelligent life we know orbits a relatively rare yellow ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

Speaking of Easter eggs, YouTube sleuths have spotted a few. Wayfarer Airlines is a callback to Breaking Bad, there’s a phone ...

Paul Cheung was recently named president of the Committee of 100, a non-profit organisation of influential Chinese-Americans ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...