“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 ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been defined more by silence than discovery, but that balance may be starting to shift. As new telescopes, algorithms, and theoretical ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

They’re hole-ar powered. If super-advanced alien civilizations exist, they would surely require insane amounts of energy to run. Now, international scientists are theorizing that these intelligent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image: NASA For roughly four billion years, the Moon has been collecting things. No weather to scrub the surface. No plate ...

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 ...

Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when astronomers began to pick up mysterious, unknown radio sources in the cosmos. Soviet ...

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 ...