Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

NASA's highly anticipated comet 3I/ATLAS images have been released, with a space agency official shooting down alien rumors and stressing that the interstellar visitor is a comet. When you purchase ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Nov 17, 2025, 05:21am EST Nov 28, 2025, 12:25am EST A team ...

Pluribus Theory: The Happiness Virus Was Engineered by an Alien Civilization to Pacify All Intelligent Life What if the virus in Pluribus was an alien species trying to shut us down before we became ...

These so-called von Neumann probes, named after the mathematician who conceptualized them, could potentially explain the absence of direct contact with alien civilizations—if we know where, and how, ...

Enrico Fermi’s decades-old question—“Where is everybody?”—remains one of science’s most haunting mysteries. If the universe is teeming with stars and planets, and life has evolved on Earth, why hasn’t ...

Where are all the aliens? No, I don’t mean microbes on Mars or creatures swimming beneath the ice crusts of Europa or Enceladus, but honest-to-God intelligent aliens, capable of space travel? The ...

The discovery of a mysterious interstellar object called "3I/ATLAS" and its transit through our solar system has set off all kinds of speculation about whether the fairly massive visitor could be some ...

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 ...