In an Instagram post on Sunday, Obama said he had been trying to “stick with the spirit” of his interviewer, political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, during a wide-ranging podcast released Saturday.

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres ...

YouGov, a research and analytics firm, found last year that most Americans believe in aliens. Its poll results showed in ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if alien signals have already reached Earth without us noticing, what ...

Ridley Scott’s 8-part sci-fi series has been reborn as the perfect weekend binge while audiences wait for Season 2.

Having been a concept designer since the early 2000s, Matthew Savage has established himself as a leading practitioner in his ...

Dan Trachtenberg also told io9 a story he was worried he'd have to take to his grave about an early reaction to the film.

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

The race to compile a sort of catalogue of the planets orbiting distant Suns is intensifying, with the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, for instance, set to spot tens of thousands of such ...

One day, probably far off in the very distant future, if astronomers are correct in their assumptions about the vastness of space, Earth will be visited by intelligent beings from another planet.

Scientists found new evidence (or lack thereof) disproving the conspiracy theory that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is alien ...

In Apple TV’s Pluribus, a faint radio signal from deep space reshapes humanity, and the source, astronomers learn, is Kepler-22b, a world that exists far beyond our solar system. During episode 8, ...