“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive ...

It may take less than 1,000 years for an advanced alien civilization to destroy its own planet with climate change, even if it relies solely on renewable energy, a new model suggests. When ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

In context: Radio waves from distant galaxies are too faint to provide meaningful data for potential space observations. However, a sufficiently advanced alien civilization could harness energy in ...

If the technological capacities of intelligent entities throughout the cosmos are unbounded, why haven't we seen signs of other intelligent life? When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on ...

A new study published in the journal Astrophysical has outlined a novel method that could be used to detect advanced alien civilizations remotely. The premise is to look for signs of nuclear fusion on ...

Astrophysicists estimate that any exponentially growing technological civilization has only 1,000 years until its planet will be too hot to support life. When you purchase through links on our site, ...