New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth ...

Researchers from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) may have figured out why we have not detected any alien ...

This video explores a hypothetical scenario regarding a global extraterrestrial invasion starting from a security breach at a ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

We’ve likely had at least one close encounter of the 3I kind before. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that not only does 3I/ATLAS potentially have alien origins, but that this wouldn’t be the first ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Of all the many alien races in Star Trek, a handful have been shown to have formed great galactic empires and often possess ...

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