If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 light years away in the constellation Leo, it's attracted a lot of attention ...

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

Audiophiles are often sold expensive cables, but a blind test proves fruit sounds just as sweet.

The findings suggest that if alien technologies exist, they are probably rare, distant, or long-lasting rather than frequent and nearby. Instead of expecting an obvious signal to appear soon, ...

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 ...

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 ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed down billions of space whispers to 100 signals. Could one of these point to ...