Avi Loeb connects archaeological history, planetary limits and interstellar research to examine how scientific exploration could shape humanity’s long-term transition beyond Earth.

As evidence continues to mount that the mysterious object with interstellar origins currently speeding toward the inner solar system at a breakneck speed is a comet, not everybody's convinced quite ...

Humanity has spent a century turning interstellar travel into a cultural inevitability, from pulp magazines to prestige ...

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If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They’re densely packed, holding a million stars in a ball only about 100 light-years ...

Houston, Texas, August 31, 2012 — The first major event from 100 Year Starship (100YSS) will take place September 13-16, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, Texas. A DARPA-seed funded initiative ...

The next game from the mind of veteran Civilization designer Sid Meier has been revealed. 2K and Firaxis Games have announced Sid Meier's Starships, an interstellar strategy game. Scheduled to arrive ...