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Astronomers scan interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for alien signals as Breakthrough Listen's 2026 technosignature search comes up empty

In the vast African savanna, an elephant lifts its head, pauses for a moment and begins to walk. No call, no trumpet, not even any visible signal. Miles away, another herd does the same. No sound travels between them. No message is perceived through human ears. Yet the message is…

Netflix just added all five seasons of "Falling Skies," a TNT post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama series starring "The Pitt" lead, Noah Wyle.

"The Chinese may well beat the U.S. with a grab sample."

Cloud-9 object is a ‘window into the dark universe’, scientists say

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On the outskirts of Jaipur, in a village named Machwa, an 86-year-old Dalit widow lives in a cluster of makeshift jhuggis. The settlement is built from uneven brick walls and patched with tarpaulin sheets and rusted tin roofs. Inside, her family of nearly 30 –  sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren –…

Conservationists highlight ‘truly extraordinary’ wildlife and the challenges they face.

What will we see in the southern sky in 2026? A total eclipse of the Moon (at a convenient time), a blue Moon and a supermoon, the two brightest planets close together, and Jupiter disappearing behind the Moon in the daytime.

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 search for extraterrestrial life.

Artemis 2, NASA's next astronaut mission to the moon, is gearing up for a launch that could occur as soon as Feb. 6.