Sohrab Rahvar and Shahin Rouhani’s recent paper, “Constraining the Lifespan of Intelligent Technological Civilization in the Galaxy,” lays it out bluntly: Advanced civilizations last roughly 5,000 ...

Texas Senate candidate James Talarico faces scrutiny over 2019 posts advising undocumented immigrants how to evade ICE ...

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...

But if the original Marathon trilogy from the 1990s — and numerous hints developer Bungie has dropped — are any indication, the new game may introduce something much weirder than rogue robots: alien ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from extraterrestrials. The paper, penned by researchers at the SETI (Search ...

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

They had larger heads, larger eyes,” she said, describing one alien group. At the 24th annual Conscious Life Expo, which ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said a federal grand jury indicted 34-year-old Patrick Gary Schlegel last week on charges of attempted murder of a federal officer, assault of a federal officer, ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

Does NASA have files on aliens? Jared Isaacman says no, and tells Ross Douthat on “Interesting Times” that extraterrestrials would pick a more exciting locale to visit than America’s naval bases.

President Barack Obama made what appeared to be a startling admission about aliens over the weekend. “They’re real,” the former president said. And then everyone tried to figure out what he actually ...