Astronomers estimate there could be a trillion planets in our galaxy, yet no confirmed signs of alien civilizations. The talk ...

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But now, 60 years after the Prime Directive was introduced to Star Trek lore, Starfleet Academy has just evolved the ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Death Echoes Overlapping” by ...

An excellent PS5, PS4 adventure game from 2020 is 75% off in a brand-new limited-time PS Store deal, and we highly recommend picking it up. Paradise Killer is at its lowest price in the new Critics’ ...

The FCC is taking public comments - now’s your chance to tell them this plan is bonkers Elon Musk's pie-in-the-sky plan to ...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has delivered a fascinating Deep Space Nine epilogue in which one of that show's greatest ...

When you look back at ’90s and 2000s sci-fi, it’s amazing how one movie with a giant stone ring changed virtually everything. Stargate began in 1994 as a single big-screen adventure starring Kurt ...

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us ...

Two Egyptian mummies underwent full-body computed tomography (CT) scans, which doctors today use to identify injuries and ...

To live in a Western country is to live in a society still utterly saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions.” — Tom ...