Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

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Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

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A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

New research led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist reveals that the earliest Native Americans had highly specialized diets, primarily hunting the largest animals on the landscape, and ...

Scientists may have just taken one of the biggest steps yet in the search for life beyond Earth. Meet K2 18 b, a distant ...