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 ...

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 ...

Physicist Enrico Fermi is credited with saying after a pointless search, “Where is everybody?” which remains the bane of any contemporary search of extraterrestrial intelligence. Recent formulation of ...

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 ...

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One of the mightiest facts we’ve uncovered about the Universe is this: that no matter when we look at it, near or far, we observe and measure it playing by the same laws, rules, and being made of the ...

A physicist has argued that fundamental cosmic constraints make visits from alien civilizations to Earth effectively impossible. Factors such as vast interstellar distances, the speed of light as a ...

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 ...