For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of a day some say changed the course of science. In April 1960, Frank Drake, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, turned a ...

Adam Frank is an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester and the author of Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth. Prosthetic foreheads, that’s the problem. When thinking ...

After searching 100,000 galaxies for signs of highly advanced extraterrestrial life, a team of scientists using observations from NASA's WISE orbiting observatory has found no evidence of advanced ...

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The Fermi Paradox ponders an endlessly fascinating question: If so many worlds exist in the universe, why haven’t we detected any sign of extraterrestrial life? A possible reason, called the ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on ...