Since the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960, scientists have been scanning the Milky ...

The quest to find extraterrestrial life is an unending pursuit of science, and one aspect of this search revolves around technosignatures. Detectable from as far as 40 light-years away, Earth’s ...

Advanced alien civilizations may communicate via a series of flashing lights, similar to how fireflies do, a new paper hints. This would potentially make extraterrestrials much harder to spot if we ...

"I really wanna see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space. Just going like 'shoom, shoom,' just one after the other." ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes it seems like we got to the galactic party late and everyone has already gone home. Our species only figured out how to ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

In his classic science fiction novel Contact, Carl Sagan remarked, “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” Physicist Enrico Fermi is credited with ...

Where are all the aliens? No, I don’t mean microbes on Mars or creatures swimming beneath the ice crusts of Europa or Enceladus, but honest-to-God intelligent aliens, capable of space travel? The ...