Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detected a possible sign of alien life on a distant planet. Alien life has still not been confirmed through science or through studying UFOs (or UAPs). NASA's ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook What if we dropped the "terrestrial" from "extraterrestrial"?

Scientists studying Jupiter’s moon Europa have zeroed in on a strange, spider-like feature etched into the moon’s icy shell, ...

It seems that we are completely alone in the universe. But simple reasoning suggests that there should be an abundance of alien civilizations. Maybe they're all out there, but they are keeping their ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial civilisations. People around th.

Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding a press conference to excitedly show off a chart that’s incomprehensible ...

Discovering extraterrestrial life has tantalized the public imagination as far back as Epicurean philosophers in Ancient Greece. Yet despite centuries of speculation, the search for alien lifeforms ...