The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

The reason we haven’t heard from aliens could be remarkably simple: interstellar communication is hard, and turbulent plasma emitted by stars makes it harder. A new study proposes that when listening ...

Based on Andy Weir’s novel, Project Hail Mary follows Ryland Grace, a school teacher-turned-supremely underqualified ...

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

A viral podcast moment last month reignited speculation about extraterrestrials and prompted President Donald Trump’s commitment to kickstarting the release of government files on flying saucers. But ...

Father Chad Ripperger claimed during a Thursday interview with former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan that entities claiming to be ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Details on where you can get a taste of this cosmic coffee house.