Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? It’s a question that has been debated for centuries, if not millenia. But it is only recently that we’ve had an actual chance of finding out, with ...

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 ...

HUMANITY will discover evidence of intelligent alien life in the universe in the next few decades, according to one top scientist. Speaking to The Sun, Armenian astrophysicist Dr Garik Israelian, 57, ...

We've long assumed that aliens will be like us, but there's every reason to think they are instead a form of unfathomable AI, says the UK astronomer royal Lord Martin Rees. It's taken more than four ...

A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

If aliens really do exist, why haven't they already tried to contact us? The idea of intelligent extraterrestrial life has long gripped scientists and the public alike, with a multitude of theories ...

A strange object hurdling through our solar system from interstellar space may, according to one of academia's most controversial astronomers, have been sent by aliens to see how smart we are. "It is ...

Scientists have just completed an extensive search for signs of alien communications technology in the Milky Way's 'solar system 2.0'. Penn State astronomers and scientists at the SETI Institute, ...

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