The aliens were next door, and somebody killed them. That’s the story plasma physicist John Brandenburg, PhD, tells about ...

With billions of potentially habitable worlds scattered across the universe, alien civilizations should be out there — yet decades of searching have produced no confirmed contact. From the Fermi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Distance, light speed, biology, and time may explain why alien civilizations never meet. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) "There ...

We’ve likely had at least one close encounter of the 3I kind before. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that not only does 3I/ATLAS potentially have alien origins, but that this wouldn’t be the first ...

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 ...

For decades, radio SETI searches have focused on one important question: if another technological civilization is trying to contact us, how would they send that message? For Dr. Zuckerman, the ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself? The idea that aliens assisted the ...

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is likely here to stay. Its ravenous need for computational power has overwhelmed chip manufacturers and power companies alike. While our current AI ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black hole Dyson spheres could harvest immense energy while releasing waste heat detectable by current telescopes. (CREDIT: ...

“There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember.” That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...