The recent visit to our solar system by the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked speculation about whether it’s another frozen rock from a distant solar system or an alien craft. Though all ...

Scientists are hard at work considering what kinds of engineering alien probes would need to reach us through interstellar space. However, crossing deep space to reach Earth with a probe would require ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Could a comet’s tail pointing towards the Sun possibly indicate alien technology, or is it just a strange quirk of dust physics? While interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS speeds by our planet at a blistering ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Playing the Game -- I. Potter Physics -- Harry Potter and the Great Conservation Laws -- Why Hogwarts is So Dark -- Fantastic Beasts and How to Disprove Them -- II. Space Travel -- Why Computers Get ...

Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality (Whiteson & Warner, 2025) is a mind-bending exploration into what it would mean, scientifically and ...