One of the challenges of searching for technosignatures (i.e., signs that intelligent life somewhere in the universe has ...

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 ...

(cokada/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Last June, while most of us were sweating it out and scrolling socials, more than two dozen ...

What would aliens actually look like? While simple life forms like bacteria may be common in the universe, complex intelligent life is likely rare. Movies often depict aliens as human-like, which is ...

Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has so far primarily meant focusing on one particular type of signal—and that ...

Experts stress need for transparency while aiming to prevent premature announcements and protect scientists ...

Alien experts claim powerful extraterrestrial life exists in the universe, which is beyond the control of any government — and could wipe out life on earth. Following Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett’s ...

The sci-fi movie “Disclosure Day” predicts that our reaction to intelligent alien life will be chaotic. But what does the ...

So many things had to happen for us (humans) to end up here (Earth). Our species is made possible because a water-filled planet orbits a particular distance away from a star of a particular size.

Researchers at SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) might be looking for the wrong thing, says one of SETI's astronomers in The Guardian. They're looking for aliens that are like us.

The human brain is a marvel of neurons firing electrical impulses through complex networks of neural pathways. It can also be notoriously slow when it comes to figuring out new solutions for ...

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