We live inside a spiral galaxy, but one school of thought suggests oval-shaped elliptical galaxies are most likely to…

A fascinating competition to devise an efficient way of colonizing the galaxy has resulted in this beautiful—and…

The Breakthrough Listen project has completed a sweeping search of over 1,300 nearby stars for signs of alien…

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

The extraterrestrial and fringe science research group founded by former Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge has released…

According to the BBC, the current graphics card shortage driven by cryptocurrency miners isn’t just hurting gamers,…

Late last year, astronomers detected the first known interstellar asteroid, dubbed ‘Oumuamua. New research suggests…

On October 19, 2017, astronomers witnessed the first known interstellar asteroid—a bizarre, cigar-shaped rock that,…

In the year 2030, a powerful radio transmission originating from Earth will arrive at a potentially habitable…

Every 100 years or so, our Sun gives off a great big belch that sends an intense wave of charged particles towards…

Some day in the far future, it’s possible our descendants will kick it up a notch and wrap the entire Sun in a…

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…

Yesterday, news made the rounds that a team of Russian astronomers had detected an unusually strong signal emanating…

Astronomers using the RATAN-600 radio telescope in the Russian Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia have detected an…

Jupiter is often referred to as a “failed star,” leading some futurists to wonder if our descendants might set it…

The disturbing Fermi Paradox suggests we should have made contact with an extraterrestrial civilization by now, yet…

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner has announced a new initiative called Breakthrough Listen, a 10-year project that…

The Great Silence is a vexing problem we all love to speculate and argue about, but it’s not the most intuitive…