The search for intelligent alien life reaches far beyond simply finding another habitable planet. Across the universe, ...

Imagine a super-advanced alien civilization that needs insane amounts of energy way beyond our puny solar panels and wind turbines to power their mega-cities, AI overlords, or whatever interstellar ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially ...

A nihilistic alien civilization sounds like one that would simply lose hope, abandon progress, and fade away. But this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A high-frequency SETI search using ALMA opened new radio bands and showed that past surveys may have covered millions more stars. ...

The British daily the Guardian on the 11th (local time) highlighted the problem of the “great silence” in our vast and ...

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 ...

Despite the alien hubbub and hoopla of the past few years, we still don’t know for certain if we are alone in the universe. We haven’t even found the tiniest scrap of evidence to suggest that there ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, SETI researchers have focused on finding narrow-band radio signals that might stand out from the natural universe. But what if an advanced civilization that wanted to communicate would ...

Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when astronomers began to pick up mysterious, unknown radio sources in the cosmos. Soviet ...