The aliens were next door, and somebody killed them. That’s the story plasma physicist John Brandenburg, PhD, tells about ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Distance, light speed, biology, and time may explain why alien civilizations never meet. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) "There ...

Strange radio signals have been detected from the direction of K2-155 d, about 238 light-years away. Here's what it could mean.

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is likely here to stay. Its ravenous need for computational power has overwhelmed chip manufacturers and power companies alike. While our current AI ...

For decades, SETI researchers have focused on finding narrow-band radio signals that might stand out from the natural universe. But what if an advanced civilization that wanted to communicate would ...

A new study proposes searching the moon for remnants of ancient extraterrestrial technology. Researchers suggest the moon's surface could preserve microscopic "technosignatures" left by alien ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...

Perhaps what remains at the end of an advanced civilization is not biological, but artificial intelligence...There are ...