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

The search for alien life often assumes discovery would be exciting or hopeful. But there are darker possibilities most people avoid discussing. This video explores five disturbing scenarios that ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial ...

For over six decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been tirelessly scanning the cosmos for signs ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

But the creepiest layer of Marathon ’s mythology involves entities called the W’rkncacnter — primordial forces of chaos so dangerous they were imprisoned inside stars, black holes, and only ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Documents might help scientists shed light on unexplained phenomena and government secrets, experts said.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...