A civilization capable of interstellar travel may also be one that has moved beyond conquest, excess and ecological self-destruction — and it therefore may not want to talk to us.
Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel and also the book The Martian, is fundamentally an optimist. Both stories ...
Researchers may have finally traced 1977’s famous extraterrestrial anomaly back toward massive, naturally occurring hydrogen ...
In a statement provided to USA TODAY on March 19, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said, "Stay tuned!" including an alien emoji after her message. The Pentagon did not ...
The domains come less than a month after President Donald Trump said he would order federal agencies to release government files related to "extraterrestrial life." ...
A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before they reach us.
Ryan Gosling's "Project Hail Mary" costar is a high-maintenance creature with his own "glam squad." The actor introduces us ...
Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.
“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...
'That truth will upend all established order across the entire world.' ...