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Research Claims There Might Be Up to 4 Quintillion Alien Spacecraft in Our...

Mulder's Dream This might be a little out there. Alien-hunting Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is back again, armed with new, not-yet-peer-reviewed research. This time, Loeb ups the ante by claiming it's...

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Scientists Preparing for Alien Contact

Hello Out There The University of St. Andrews in Scotland has announced the formation of a new research hub last week, bringing together the brightest minds to prepare humanity for the day we might...

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NASA Scientists Suggest The Reason We Haven't Found Aliens Is They All Killed...

Tragic Hypothesis In a paper that feels more like a call to action than its science fiction-esque premise would suggest, two NASA scientists have forwarded a heartbreaking explanation for why we...

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Scientists Propose Method for Detecting Alien Warp Drive Activity

A team of scientists has proposed that we could use existing Earth-based observatories to hunt for advanced alien life forms by seeking out the activity of their hypothetical warp drives. In a recent...

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NASA Unveils Plan for Giant Telescope to Spot Life on Alien Planets

World Observatory NASA has revealed details about the multi-billion successor to its groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — a project tasked with searching for life on Earth-like planets as...

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Scientists Worried Humankind Will Descend Into Chaos If We Ever Discover an...

Chicken Run Scientists at the recently opened SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews in Scotland have a daunting task ahead of them: figure out what the hell to do if we were ever to...

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Alien-Detecting AI Finds Eight "Suspicious" Signals

Strange Signals A group that's at the forefront of the search for alien life has found some strange radio signals from space — and they're as confused by their origins as we are. Speaking to New Atlas,...

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Scientists Want to Use AI to Hunt for Aliens on Mars

AIlien Hunter In a new study, a group of NASA-affiliated researchers suggests we could train an AI to look for biosignatures on Mars — and thereby improve our chances of discovering life on the Red...

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Building a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun Would Be Easy if We Used Jupiter for...

Disassembly Required We'd need an astronomical amount of resources to construct a Dyson sphere, a giant theoretical shell that would harvest all of a given star's energy, around the Sun. In fact, as...

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Earth Receiving Simulated Alien Signal From Mars

Is Anyone There? A team of scientists at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute have put together a simulated alien signal to transmit from a spacecraft currently orbiting Mars...

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Harvard Professor Says Godlike Aliens May Be Creating Universes in Labs

Uni Versus In a new interview, perpetually provocative Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb posited both that super-human aliens could be building "baby universes" in labs and that his haters...

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If the James Webb Spotted a Planet Exactly Like Earth, Would Scientists...

Spying Spectra What if NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope was pointed straight at an exoplanet exactly like the Earth? Would it recognize a civilization like ours? In a...

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Aliens May Already Know We Exist, Scientists Say

Hide and Seek Despite our best efforts at scanning the skies for signs of extraterrestrial life, we've come up short. Scientists have offered up several theories as to why that is. In 1950,...

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Mysterious Signals From Space Are Getting Stranger, Scientists Say

Blipped Out Ever since the first fast radio burst was discovered in 2007, scientists have been racing to understand the unusual flashes of radio waves emanating from extremely distant locations. Some...

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Life Spreads Through Universe in Cosmic Dust, Paper Suggests

Star Stuff Acclaimed astronomer Carl Sagan may have been more right than he knew when he famously quipped that "we are made of star stuff." In a not-yet-peer-reviewed academic paper, Georgian Free...

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Scientists Scanning Beautiful Star System for Signs of Alien Tech

Perfect Harmony Last year, scientists discovered a mathematically perfect star system — and now, they're looking into whether it might contain signs of alien tech. Dubbed HD 110067, the star system...

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Alien Civilizations May Be Trapped on Their Home Worlds

Planet Bound The Drake equation, formulated by astrophysicist Frank Drake in 1961, explores the question of why we still have yet to encounter an extraterrestrial civilization. The equation takes a...

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NASA Craft Hunting Alien Life Will Carry a New Message From Humanity

Anyone There? One of NASA's latest probes is carrying on the grand tradition of blasting humanity's message out to the cosmos — and this one's searching for life outside of our pale blue dot. As...

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SETI Institute Claims They've Successfully Communicated With a Whale

Speaking Whale A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, which is devoted to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, claims to have "conversed" with a humpback whale in Alaska. While it may...

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SETI Scientist Says Announcement of Alien Life Could Be Imminent

Webby Awards One of the world's foremost experts in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) believes that with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, humans are closer to discovering...

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