A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is ...

Sometimes it seems like we got to the galactic party late and everyone has already gone home. Our species only figured out how to get into orbit within the last century. Since then, we’ve flown ...

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 ...

After searching 100,000 galaxies for signs of highly advanced extraterrestrial life, a team of scientists using observations from NASA's WISE orbiting observatory has found no evidence of advanced ...

A new SETI methodology focuses on detecting the "spillover" from directed interstellar communications, mirroring how we communicate with our own spacecraft, rather than relying on broad, speculative ...

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Elon Musk reacts to a resurfaced video with a four-word tweet, reaffirming his long-term vision for travel beyond the confines of our solar system. Learn more about Musk’s vision of finding alien life ...

In the past several years the media has been abuzz with the emerging notion of the Singularity. The idea that there will be a merging of humans and machines and that our consciousness will eventually ...