The video ranks the biggest cosmic threats to humanity, from rogue planets and black holes to supernovas, gamma ray bursts, ...

Small, rocky planets can coalesce around a wide variety of stars, suggesting that Earth-like alien worlds may have formed early and often throughout our Milky Way galaxy's history, a new study reveals ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

With hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way alone, logic suggests intelligent life should be common. Yet despite ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

As evidence, he cited "the circumstantial evidence that I've gathered throughout my whole life, everybody I've listened to ...

If advanced aliens lived on a planet within a few hundred to a thousand light years away from Earth, then vast numbers of their signals must already have crossed Earth without being noticed, a new ...

A study suggests that stellar plasma may distort alien signals, complicating SETI's search for extraterrestrial life by pushing signals below detection thresholds.

"Milky Way season," when our galaxy's bright center is most visible, is now beginning in the Northern Hemisphere. The best time to see the Milky Way in the U.S. is generally from March to September.

The Milky Way galaxy's bright center is most visible in the United States from March to September. No special equipment is needed to see the galaxy, but dark skies away from city lights are essential.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

Fireworks may not be the only light show this 4th of July weekend (and beyond.) The darkest Arizona skies may deliver ...