On Monday night, someone placed a peculiar bet on the prediction market Kalshi. At 7:45 p.m. eastern time, a single trader put down nearly $100,000 on the claim that, by the end of December, the Trump ...

If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 ...

Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens -- with screensavers.

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In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

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.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Kristin Cabot, the woman at the center of the viral Coldplay kiss-cam scandal, finally speaks out about the moment ...

Kristin Cabot, the woman seen embracing her boss on a "kiss cam" at a Coldplay concert in July, is speaking out for the first time about the fallout from the moment and how it affected her family. “I ...

It's difficult to believe that, given the enormous extent of outer space around us, there aren't other life forms out there. Humanity has long been intrigued by the idea, with movies, books, and TV ...

Astronomers have detected the first-ever "radio signal" coming from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, right as it passed the halfway mark on its oneway trip through the solar system. And while this may ...

Ever since astronomers first detected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in July, speculation about its true nature has run wild. Some experts speculate it isn’t a comet at all but rather an extraterrestrial ...