Imagine receiving a message from another world. Not from a distant galaxy millions of light years away, but from a planet ...

Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

The moon may be wearing a dusting of alien junk, and a group of researchers wants to go looking for it. In a new study that's ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

For decades, SETI researchers have focused on finding narrow-band radio signals that might stand out from the natural universe. But what if an advanced civilization that wanted to communicate would ...

Seven Rasmussen, an astrobiologist and author of the new book Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, gives readers a tour of the ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of an exoplanet in an alien star system. New research suggests that radio emissions from intelligent aliens may be ...

Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when astronomers began to pick up mysterious, unknown radio sources in the cosmos. Soviet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...