The British daily the Guardian on the 11th (local time) highlighted the problem of the “great silence” in our vast and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of a telescope under a starry sky and a planet in space. Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your ...

“There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember.” That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...

Scientists have spent 60 years searching for extraterrestrial signals, yet calculations suggest humanity has explored only a ...

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 ...

We’ve likely had at least one close encounter of the 3I kind before. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that not only does 3I/ATLAS potentially have alien origins, but that this wouldn’t be the first ...

For decades, radio SETI searches have focused on one important question: if another technological civilization is trying to contact us, how would they send that message? For Dr. Zuckerman, the ...

Evidence of alien life or cosmic pyramid scheme? A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian civilizations after sharing footage that appeared to depict a “three-sided pyramid” on ...

For decades, SETI researchers have focused on finding narrow-band radio signals that might stand out from the natural universe. But what if an advanced civilization that wanted to communicate would ...