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 ...

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

The search for intelligent alien life reaches far beyond simply finding another habitable planet. Across the universe, scientists can look for signs that advanced civilizations may leave behind, from ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...

Black holes appear built to hide energy, not advertise it. Yet a civilization wrapping one in vast collectors could create a detectable glow, turning one of the universe’s darkest objects into a ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new paper. Reading time 3 minutes In our search for life beyond Earth, we might ...

"There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember." That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...