Scientists continue to explore one of humanity’s biggest questions: are we alone in the universe? This documentary examines the modern search for intelligent alien life, from advanced telescopes and ...

The search for intelligent alien life moves far beyond tiny microbes in this cinematic look at possible advanced ...

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 ...

Dyson sphere stability — once considered an impossible physics problem — may be within reach. A peer-reviewed paper in ...

Scientists may have discovered how extraterrestrial civilizations could actually detect and find Earth.

“There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember.” That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed at an astounding pace over the last few years. Some scientists are now looking towards the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI)—a form of AI ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...