The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

Billions of years ago, another planet smashed into Earth. An event of this epicness could have created our Moon. It also ...

There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...

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 ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

The Fermi Paradox ponders an endlessly fascinating question: If so many worlds exist in the universe, why haven’t we detected any sign of extraterrestrial life? A possible reason, called the ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has largely been predicated on a specific assumption: that advanced civilizations will inevitably grow, expanding their energy consumption and ...

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