Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light-years distant. Yet despite the odds, scientists insist that continuing the ...

AI agents now help SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen to operate radio telescopes and sift through space signals in real time, even before an observation ends.

Scientists searching for advanced alien civilizations have detected a mysterious signal in data from the world's largest single-dish radio telescope.

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 ...

Sciencephile the AI applies the friendship paradox to argue our first contact is more likely with digital or machine ...

What if aliens were building a massive power plant?Last time, I talked about the "Kardashev scale," which classifies the ...

Suppose an alien civilization discovers Earth and decides to investigate. Before it chooses a landing site or considers how to introduce itself, it faces a less dramatic question: how much mass should ...

Finding a signal from an extraterrestrial civilization takes more than just pointing a telescope in the right direction. We ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...