Price has made tremendous progress in the AI field over the past few years, with AIs of incredible ability emerging, such as image-generating AIs Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and text-generating ...

The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a proving ground for how serious that search can be. TRAPPIST-1, a dim red ...

Scientists across the globe were stumped by mysterious signals being received at the Parkes radio telescope, but it turned out to be anything but extraterrestrial. Scientists across the globe were ...

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, according to a new study that could lead to new approaches in finding ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious object in our galaxy that emits intense bursts of radio waves and X-rays with ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth quest has seen scientists trawl through as many as 12 billion signals picked ...