The aliens were next door, and somebody killed them. That’s the story plasma physicist John Brandenburg, PhD, tells about ...

Science fiction suggests that life on other planets, if it exists, is likely far more advanced than life on Earth. A recent ...

Scientists have issued a new blueprint for the day Earth receives a message from an alien civilization. Released Friday, the eight-point plan lays out how researchers should handle a potentially world ...

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 ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on the arXiv preprint server introduces a compelling idea about how we might ...

If ancient alien explorers ever traipsed through Earth's cosmic neighborhood, could it be possible they left behind some interstellar litter on the moon?

Perhaps what remains at the end of an advanced civilization is not biological, but artificial intelligence...There are ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Esben_H/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Fermi paradox asks: If there are other civilizations in the Universe besides ours, why haven't we yet made contact? Researchers who study this paradox – also ...