Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission. And it could be coming from one of the nearest ...

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

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

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 the following six books, each writer looks to space to skillfully explore what it means to live on Earth. Salvation and ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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

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 ...

A new line of research proposes that the first clear signs of extraterrestrial intelligence may not come from distant stars, ...

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