Extraterrestrial intelligence

As the famous X-Files poster declares, “I want to believe.” This wanting, however, often leads us astray. When…

A comparative analysis of historical and contemporary astronomical data has resulted in the discovery of…

Slightly over half of people in the UK believe that if the Earth received communications from an extraterrestrial,…

Amid renewed interest in UFOs following a series of articles detailing strange sightings by U.S. military pilots—and …

Donald Trump mumbled his way through a response to a softball question on UFOs and extraterrestrial life in an…

Researchers with the University of California, Berkeley’s SETI Research Center Breakthrough Listen team have…

You may have seen recent headlines about a strange radio signal picked up by a Canadian telescope. Some go as far as…

August 2018 rolled in with a bang, literally, as explosions rocked Caracas, Venezuela on Saturday during a speech by…

Reported UFO sightings have been declining in the United States for the last few years, according to the…

SETI enthusiasts have devised all sorts of complicated ways for us to find signs of alien life, but a new paper…

No, NASA hasn’t discovered life on Mars yet—but a new result makes it seem like maybe, at some point in the planet’s…

Sometimes, scientists have the answers all along—they just don’t think to ask the question. For example, it appears…

Rocky worlds larger than Earth are commonplace in the galaxy, and a few of them may even be habitable. Which poses…

We have yet to find any traces of extraterrestrial intelligence, a vexing problem known as the Fermi Paradox. A new…

Some SETI researchers believe the best way to detect aliens is to search the skies for their laser beams. In the…

Since their discovery ten years ago, fast radio bursts have confounded astronomers. These intergalactic pulses of…

Unlike so many politicians these days, Winston Churchill held a deep admiration for learning and science. A…

Everyone’s favorite alien-megastructure-that-never-was got another affirmation that it’s just a goddamn star today.…

The Kepler Space Telescope recently picked up unprecedented flickering behavior from a distant star, leading to…

A strange star located 1,500 light-years from Earth is exhibiting strange flickering behavior that’s leading some…