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Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” who look suspiciously like us in rubber suits. The scientists who actually ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a ...

reports of alien abductions and recovered memory syndrome or studies that don't reach traditional levels of significance. But neither controversial phenomena nor potentially illuminating but ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.