For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from an ordinary handheld radio. Through a careful approach to demodulating the ...

Astronomers used the VLA and MeerKAT radio telescopes to search the Hycean exoplanet K2-18b for alien technosignatures, analyzing millions of signals but finding no confirmed artificial radio transmis ...

On Monday night, someone placed a peculiar bet on the prediction market Kalshi. At 7:45 p.m. eastern time, a single trader put down nearly $100,000 on the claim that, by the end of December, the Trump ...

If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 ...

Our fascination with the cosmos has led to many great UFO movies being produced, some of which never got the audience they ...

They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in… what is it? Area 51,” he quipped.Within hours, the clip ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

Indie game developer and publisher Cherrypick Games revealed that their latest game, Signal Station, is set for a Steam release this year. This is a tactile sci-fi thriller in which you are a ...

Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time. Sure, there are plenty of ...

Remote listening station. 1984. An impossible signal appears. You’re the only one who can decode it. Get a peek at gameplay from Signal Station in this trailer for the upcoming tactile sci-fi thriller ...

The article explores the idea that the galaxy might not be quiet—but that advanced civilizations could be communicating through an efficient, laser-based “Galactic Internet” that we haven’t yet ...

For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The goal of ...