“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are ...

Interstellar objects such as Comet 3I/ATLAS can be sent by alien civilizations to "sow" life on Earth. At the same time, it is almost impossible that for the entire time of Earth's existence the Earth ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

Plus, a list of other ways to possibly detect aliens ALIEN civilizations could be detected if they are using solar panel technology, researchers have suggested. Researchers believe aliens may be using ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

Many other planets throughout the universe probably hosted intelligent life long before Earth did, a new study suggests. The probability of a civilization developing on a potentially habitable alien ...

The Harvard physicist who claimed the first interstellar visitor in 2017 was an alien craft, although the object has been determined to be a rock, says Earth needs to form treaties with ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on ...

The first few years of the 2020s have seen the debate over whether humanity is alone in the universe evolve from a far-fetched distraction to a pressing bipartisan issue. An increasing amount of ...

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 ...