“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

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

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

We've all grown up dreaming of aliens landing on the Earth or laser beaming across the sky; well, either way, it's sci-fi and ...

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

It’s one of the most popular themes in science fiction—top secret government experts are ready to spring into action if a UFO appears. For example, in the novella-based 2016 film Arrival, the ...

In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

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 ...

One proposed solution to the Fermi Paradox suggests that intelligent civilizations remain silent by necessity. Advanced ...

Hunting for alien civilizations isn't a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it's the business of combing through enormous volumes of data to look for peculiar signals. When you purchase ...

After searching 100,000 galaxies for signs of highly advanced extraterrestrial life, a team of scientists using observations from NASA's WISE orbiting observatory has found no evidence of advanced ...

The space rock 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object discovered by astronomers, following 'Oumuamua and the comet Borisov. While astronomers are still busily collecting data on the ...