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 ...

Imagine a super-advanced alien civilization that needs insane amounts of energy way beyond our puny solar panels and wind ...

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 ...

Black holes can release enormous energy through hot disks, surrounding plasma and powerful jets, enough to support a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study published as a preprint on arXiv suggests that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations might not need to surround ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new paper. Reading time 3 minutes In our search for life beyond Earth, we might ...