“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

Researchers used Green Bank Telescope to detect radio signals from 3I/ATLAS just before its closest approach to Earth.

There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive ...

We've all grown up dreaming of aliens landing on the Earth or laser beaming across the sky; well, either way, it's sci-fi and ...

Interstellar objects such as Comet 3I/ATLAS can be sent by alien civilizations to "sow" life on Earth. At the same time, it is almost impossible that for the entire time of Earth's existence the Earth ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

It’s one of the most popular themes in science fiction—top secret government experts are ready to spring into action if a UFO appears. For example, in the novella-based 2016 film Arrival, the ...

Hunting for alien civilizations isn't a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it's the business of combing through enormous volumes of data to look for peculiar signals. When you purchase ...

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 ...