Imagine a super-advanced alien civilization that needs insane amounts of energy way beyond our puny solar panels and wind ...

They’re hole-ar powered. If super-advanced alien civilizations exist, they would surely require insane amounts of energy to ...

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 Fermi paradox asks why we haven’t found aliens yet. Scientists say the answer may lie in timing, technology, and the vast scale of space.

Dive into ancient alien theories as we explore the Fermi Paradox, discussing challenges of colonizing other stars and the ...

For decades, radio SETI searches have focused on one important question: if another technological civilization is trying to contact us, how would they send that message? For Dr. Zuckerman, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...