Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission. And it could be coming from one of the nearest ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the ...

We may be able to find evidence of advanced alien civilizations in pulverized traces of their technology. Oxford astrophysicist Brian Lacki argues in a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper that, instead ...

In the following six books, each writer looks to space to skillfully explore what it means to live on Earth. Salvation and ...

In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

We’ve likely had at least one close encounter of the 3I kind before. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that not only does 3I/ATLAS potentially have alien origins, but that this wouldn’t be the first ...

"There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember." That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly ...