The universe looks empty, but the explanation could be more unsettling than loneliness. Exploring the Fermi paradox and the ...

Johnston is in the midst of scaling up Starcloud, working through technical issues, and raising hundreds of millions of dollars. So he’s pretty busy. But Johnston also wants to send a mission to the ...

Zach Cregger's The Flood casts Jennifer Lawrence as the lead of a deep-space sci-fi thriller produced by Steven Spielberg.

Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the most promising hints yet of life on a distant planet. But given the age and ...

Fermi Explorer, a proposed low-cost private mission to Alpha Centauri, seeks to address a question that’s already been ...

Seattle-area nonprofit group kicks off a campaign to raise $15 million and solicit bids for a milestone interstellar mission.

Join us LIVE Monday, November 11, to hear planetary scientist Alan Stern – leader of the mighty New Horizons mission to Pluto and the outer solar system – discuss the Fermi Paradox. The livestream ...

"None of us will be here when this journey ends, and that is the point." Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed to ...

“Where is everybody?”: This question, about the lack of aliens in the vast universe, is called Fermi’s paradox – Copyright NASA/AFP/File HO Astronomers raised ...