The British daily the Guardian on the 11th (local time) highlighted the problem of the “great silence” in our vast and ...

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 ...

What if technosignatures and biosignatures are not the only ways intelligent alien life can make itself apparent?

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

From terrifying first contact stories to explorations of newly discovered alien civilizations, science fiction novels have ...

Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

Sagan's team created the greatest puzzle of all time, which you can only solve if your species understands the basic nature of the universe.

For decades, the idea of making contact with extraterrestrial life has fascinated scientists and the general public alike. While Hollywood often portrays alien encounters as inevitable, the reality is ...