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 ...

Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar ...

Imagine receiving a message from another world. Not from a distant galaxy millions of light years away, but from a planet ...

Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission. And it could be coming from one of the nearest exoplanets, Proxima Centauri b. What conditions make this planet a candidate for ...

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 ...

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There has long been debate about the existence of extraterrestrial life and advanced alien civilizations out there in the ...

Seven Rasmussen, an astrobiologist and author of the new book Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, gives readers a tour of the ...

Scientists around the world have spent decades pointing radio telescopes at the sky, hoping to catch that one signal proving we’re not alone in the universe. But now researchers at SETI are asking: ...

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 ...

It would probably not be the first question we asked, and it would not be the most urgent. But it could be one of the most revealing. Did another intelligent species develop ideas about gods, souls, ...

Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when astronomers began to pick up mysterious, unknown radio sources in the cosmos. Soviet ...