Intelligent alien life has remained elusive despite decades of searching the skies, but new technologies and ideas are ...

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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 ...

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The universe contains billions of potentially habitable worlds, yet humanity has found no confirmed sign of another ...

Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has so far primarily meant focusing on one particular type of signal—and that signal has normally been based on our own current cutting-edge technology. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

Black holes appear built to hide energy, not advertise it. Yet a civilization wrapping one in vast collectors could create a detectable glow, turning one of the universe’s darkest objects into a ...

Claims that aliens are already here are everywhere, but proving them is another matter. The strongest cases become more ...

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In the coming month, humans are going to experience their first encounter with an alien civilization as predicted by blind ...