Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

There have been around 945 episodes of Star Trek, spread across more than a dozen shows, aired over sixty years. Yet for all the times Starfleet crew members have probed the intricacies of alien civil ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Although they were popular at the time, sci-fi series like Babylon 5 and The Sarah Jane Adventures, feel like they were meant ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

Constructed from excerpts of his Las Vegas concerts during the early 1970s, the documentary captures a glitzy, reborn Presley working the crowd and thrilling fans.

Elvis Presley in Concert" convinces you that the King is the greatest entertainer who ever lived. By the end of it, he's a god. Director Baz Luhrmann claims he made this Imax documentary so that any ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” Richard Feynman’s reflection lingers because it feels personal.

I was trying to watch a TED Talk the other day — British mathematician Hannah Fry discussing ‘The Mathematics of Love’ — but ...