Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission. And it could be coming from one of the nearest exoplanets, Proxima Centauri b. What conditions make this planet a candidate for ...

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.

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. You might think this column is about UFOs and the Pentagon's ...

UFO believers back Steven Spielberg's claims that extraterrestrials may already be living on Earth. As evidence, he cited "the circumstantial evidence that I've gathered throughout my whole life, ...

Once small enough, these technograins might gain a trip out of its host solar system by a solar wind that overcomes the star's gravity holding it back. These motes of dust are then free to roam the ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

Disclosure Day treats extraterrestrial life as a challenge to faith. It’s not.

It’s been nearly five years since the Australian non-profit Rouser Lab unveiled its plan to build Earth’s Black Box, a flight recorder-like device designed to document humanity’s spiral into ...