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 ...

Are humans alone in the universe, or could intelligent alien civilizations exist somewhere beyond Earth? For more than 60 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...

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

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 ...

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 ...