“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...
One proposed solution to the Fermi Paradox suggests that intelligent civilizations remain silent by necessity. Advanced ...
The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...
Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...
In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".
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 ...
Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...
There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive ...
NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...