Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Humans have created countless inventions that shape our lives in amazing ways. Some are practical, some are revolutionary, and some are simply fascinating. But if aliens suddenly appeared, which ...

Dyson swarms—theoretical arrangements of satellites orbiting a star to harness its energy—may seem like they could be eternal once constructed, but they are still at the mercy of gravity. A new ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

A new preprint from David Kipping, assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University, has suggested that our first contact with aliens will likely be atypical, and particularly bleak. Since at ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

What new methods can be used to detect alien technosignatures? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from Pennsylvania ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?