Before social media rose up to feed us the latest in-jokes, a staple of late-'90s television made history by featuring one of ...

For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The goal of ...

Dell's Alienware brand is here at CES 2026, and the biggest highlight is in Alienware's upcoming laptops. Alienware's revived classic Area-51 brand is still going strong, including an updated Area-51 ...

After relaunching its Area-51 brand with a new 16-inch laptop in 2025, Alienware is teasing two new laptops at CES 2026 in an attempt to reach an even larger audience. Dell's gaming brand plans to ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.

Alien Earth’s first season has ended, and the important bit of that is “first” season. What seemed like it might have been a miniseries was in fact meant to have multiple seasons, and now we have some ...

An image of actress Jessica Chastain wearing glasses and looking at a computer screen in a dark room has become a viral meme template on Twitter / X lately. The photo is from her upcoming Apple TV+ ...

Wendy is the world's first hybrid: a synthetic robot who has been "uploaded" with the mind and memory of a human. When she was alive, she was a terminally ill child named Marcy. She chose her new name ...

"Considering the direction and frequency of our most common signals gives insights into where we should be looking to improve our chances of detecting alien technosignatures." When you purchase ...