search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Astrobiologists with the Breakthrough Listen project have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey, in…

Proxima Centauri—the nearest star to our own—has produced one of the most powerful flares on record. The observation…

A planetary scientist says subterranean water worlds are likely common in the galaxy and probably even better for…

Who says you can’t lose your atmosphere to a nearby red dwarf and then grow a new one with the help of volcanic…

A new estimate suggests it’ll cost somewhere between $30 million and $50 million to clean up the mess created by the…

When the NASA Mars rover Perseverance was dramatically airlifted through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and touched…

A groundbreaking survey of over 10 million star systems has failed to detect signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.

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…