Scientists searched 27 exoplanets for alien technology using planetary eclipses, revealing a new way SETI hunts signals ...

A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

“Because of current limitations on technology, an important assumption of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is that extraterrestrial intelligence and life will be interested in making ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

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Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episodes 1 & 2. The Alien franchise has always been focused on the race for immortality, and Noah Hawley's perfect organism, the FX original ...

Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...

Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality (Whiteson & Warner, 2025) is a mind-bending exploration into what it would mean, scientifically and ...

That is where Anonymous Chicken keeps tripping up. A species that uses touch or echolocation as its primary sense and has manipulative appendages could potentially develop a technological civilization ...