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

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

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

Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

However, a new study available on the arXiv preprint server introduces a compelling idea about how we might first encounter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Drake Equation helps scientists estimate the odds of finding intelligent alien civilizations. It’s an age-old question: Do aliens exist? And what are the odds we’ll make contact? A famous ...

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 ...