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

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of the United States. In a recent interview, Barack Obama became the first ...

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

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

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 ...

The popular history docuseries The Proof Is Out There returns to the History Channel with its season six premiere Friday, March 6 at 10/9c. During the season six premiere episode, a high-tech U.S.

With the release, the American public could learn what, if anything, the government has documented about the unexplained ...

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

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

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

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP—believe another. A common misconception is that it can ...