For decades, humans have scanned for signals of alien technology emanating through the galaxy. The search highlights the contradiction between the abundance of planets and stars that stretch across ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Physicist Richard Feynman argued that fundamental limits of physics, biology, and time make interstellar contact between civilizations effectively impossible. He cited vast distances, the speed of ...

Advanced alien civilizations may communicate via a series of flashing lights, similar to how fireflies do, a new paper hints. This would potentially make extraterrestrials much harder to spot if we ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly ...

What new methods can be used to detect alien technosignatures? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from Pennsylvania ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist who is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural ...

Astronomer Dr. David Kipping argued that we're more likely to meet a "unusually loud" extraterrestrials whose empire is on the decline. When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to ...