Astronomers estimate there could be a trillion planets in our galaxy, yet no confirmed signs of alien civilizations. The talk explores why advanced life might be far rarer than expected. It breaks the ...

But now, 60 years after the Prime Directive was introduced to Star Trek lore, Starfleet Academy has just evolved the ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

If a Galactic Internet is out there, we may be like fish swimming through the ocean, unaware of the undersea cables carrying vast streams of information around us. The data may be flowing right past ...

There is a scene in the movie version of Carl Sagan’s book Contact where the main character, an astronomer who has detected the first radio signal from an alien civilization, is being considered for ...

By examining the potential existence of Dyson spheres, a University of Glasgow scientist aims to guide the search for alien ...

Embarking on a spur of the moment astronomy lesson, Musk explained that the sun makes up some 99.8% of mass of the solar system, and that Jupiter, the biggest planet, is just kind of a rounding error ...

I played the entirety of Alan Turing-inspired, enigma-cracking war game TR-49 on my Steam Deck, but it's not verified for ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

Gene Roddenberry's idea for another sci-fi series took 21 years to come to fruition, and when it did, it seemed a bit too ...

At Davos, the billionaire said his belief that "it might only be us" in the cosmos drives Tesla, SpaceX, and his vision for ...

Professor Avi Loeb of Harvard cited three reasons 3I/ATLAS might be an alien spacecraft. First, its trajectory is highly ...