A viral podcast moment last month reignited speculation about extraterrestrials and prompted President Donald Trump’s commitment to kickstarting the release of government files on flying saucers. But ...

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...

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 ...

The Fermi Paradox asks a simple but unsettling question: if the universe is so vast, why haven’t we found evidence of alien ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

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

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

I was trying to watch a TED Talk the other day — British mathematician Hannah Fry discussing ‘The Mathematics of Love’ — but ...

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

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

That means if aliens were to exist, and they were located some 66 million light-years from Earth, they’d theoretically still ...

From the very beginning, Star Trek has been a story of exploration; it’s literally baked into the franchise’s famous opening line, with the promise that the starship Enterprise was boldly going where ...