Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on the arXiv preprint server introduces a compelling idea about how we might ...

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could they hear us? A new study combining data from Penn State and NASA’s Jet ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes it seems like we got to the galactic party late and everyone has already gone home. Our species only figured out how to ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...

Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson continues to dismiss the hypothesis of a Harvard University professor that a massive interstellar object careening toward the sun was sent by alien ...