The Fermi paradox asks why we haven’t found aliens yet. Scientists say the answer may lie in timing, technology, and the vast ...

A new study has found that stellar “space weather” could be making it significantly harder to detect potential signals from aliens, which may have been passing unnoticed through the cosmos. SETI—short ...

Researchers have decided that a potentially good way to prepare for future contact with extraterrestrial beings is by studying…whale bubbles. No, it’s not a joke—researchers from the SETI Institute, ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

In 1967, astronomers thought they had finally heard from the neighbors. They intercepted a signal so regular and precise it seemed impossible for it to be natural. But the excitement didn’t last.

Long before Artemis II captured our attention by taking humans farther from Earth than ever before, humans have been fascinated by the possibility of exploring other worlds, finding life on other ...

Exoplanet atmospheric chemistry as a creative dataset Assembly theory, a framework describing life as a complex molecular organization beyond nonliving chemistry AI-human co-creation as a non-dominant ...