Director Craig Gillespie, known for I, Tonya (2017) and Cruella (2021), ventures into superhero territory for the first time ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

And if aliens made of different stuff potentially possess consciousness, then why not minds made of silicon, metal, and ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

A new line of research proposes that the first clear signs of extraterrestrial intelligence may not come from distant stars, ...

This is not a continuation of the Democratic Party, but a hostile takeover by people who want to scrap its modern center-left ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

Are there no alien signals to find... or do we need to update how we search for them? We’ve been looking for messages from the stars ever since Frank Drake pointed the Green Bank radio telescope at ...

Leith's giant yellow 'Minions' are actually offshore wind components. The Herald went inside the Port of Leith to discover ...