Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

The search for alien life often assumes discovery would be exciting or hopeful. But there are darker possibilities most people avoid discussing. This video explores five disturbing scenarios that ...

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals The ...

For over six decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been tirelessly scanning the cosmos for signs ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

But the creepiest layer of Marathon ’s mythology involves entities called the W’rkncacnter — primordial forces of chaos so dangerous they were imprisoned inside stars, black holes, and only ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

That means if aliens were to exist, and they were located some 66 million light-years from Earth, they’d theoretically still ...

Aura readers, quantum life coaches, and “starseeds” came together at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles: “There’s a consensus that ‘first contact’ is not far away” In a packed ballroom in Los ...