It’s time to start controlling the galaxy, and the best tool for the job is a self-replicating probe. Space probes that can go incredibly long distances, replicate themselves, and carry things like ...

Zaza Osmanov, a physics professor at the Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia, wants to find mischievous, self-replicating probes built by a hyper-advanced alien civilization. “The self-replication ...

A telescope located in China, called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope), while designed specifically as a traditional radio telescope, has been theorized to be able to detect ...

It has been argued that self-replicating robotic probes could spread to all stars of our galaxy within a timespan that is tiny on cosmological scales, even if they travel well below the speed of light ...

Inspiration for space exploration can come from all corners. One of the most inspiring, or terrifying, sources of inspiration for some in space exploration came from computer science expert John von ...

New research has revealed that the world's largest radio telescope, located in China, could potentially spot self-replicating probes launched by a distant intelligent alien civilization, should they ...

In 1948-49, mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and engineer John von Neumann introduced the world to his idea of “Universal Assemblers,” a species of self-replicating robots. Von Neumann’s ...

The article on the power of biological computers as self-replicating, low-energy systems, capable of computation and problem solving, brought to mind von Neumann probes (10 June, p 36). These are ...