The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

In the following six books, each writer looks to space to skillfully explore what it means to live on Earth. Salvation and ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

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 ...

Scientists continue to explore one of humanity’s biggest questions: are we alone in the universe? This documentary examines ...

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 ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is arguing that our inaugural contact is more likely to be a distress call, the ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be ...