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 ...

Physicist Richard Feynman argued that fundamental limits of physics, biology, and time make interstellar contact between civilizations effectively impossible. He cited vast distances, the speed 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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...