Real scientific efforts at universal communication have also involved mathematics and numbers. The covers of the Golden ...

This woman claims her near-death experience took her far beyond Earth. She describes seeing other planets and intelligent ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In the late 1800s Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli pointed a telescope at Mars ...

A new SETI methodology focuses on detecting the "spillover" from directed interstellar communications, mirroring how we communicate with our own spacecraft, rather than relying on broad, speculative ...

The evolution of intelligent life around red dwarf stars is likely to be an uphill slog, due to the demands needed to jumpstart oxygenic photosynthesis. Given that red M-dwarf stars are by far the ...

Iowa City duo Sun Centauri has embarked on a celestial voyage with their debut EP, Flux4D. IPR’s Cece Mitchell spoke with the pair about translating their feelings into music, the beauty of the ...

Humanity stands at the crossroads of science and speculation as claims resurface that an enormous unidentified flying object ...

October 28, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute announced that it will incorporate the new NVIDIA IGX Thor platform to enhance its real-time search for signals from space at the Allen ...

Since early 2004, the Mars rovers have gathered images of rocks and terrain where water, the presumed prerequisite of life, once flowed (an artist's rendition). NASA / JPL-Caltech "When I was a kid," ...

Early Mars seems to have had a protective atmosphere and liquid water in the form of oceans, rivers, and lakes. It may also ...

The new enterprise-ready NVIDIA IGX Thor platform brings real-time AI processing to the Allen Telescope Array, helping scientists detect signals from space faster than ever. The ATA’s 42 antennas scan ...