Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the ...

The search for alien life has long been focused on detecting signals from distant civilizations, primarily through ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution?

The position of this Great Filter, as he named it, is critically important as we contemplate the future of humanity. If the ...

SXSW: The 34 military and intelligence veterans interviewed about their knowledge of alien encounters offer the most convincing argument you can make without showing any actual evidence. It’s ironic ...

It will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but [...] we are not the pinnacle of creation,” he says.

So the odds that we will overlap in time and space with a detectable alien civilization don't seem great. There is probably no single solution to the Fermi Paradox The "great silence" is the idea ...