Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is likely here to stay. Its ravenous need for computational power has overwhelmed chip manufacturers and power companies alike. While our current AI ...

Lunar regolith may hold microscopic alien debris, and scientists plan to excavate one cubic meter of Moon soil to find out.

Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar ...

Imagine receiving a message from another world. Not from a distant galaxy millions of light years away, but from a planet ...

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 ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

Seven Rasmussen, an astrobiologist and author of the new book Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, gives readers a tour of the ...

For decades, SETI researchers have focused on finding narrow-band radio signals that might stand out from the natural universe. But what if an advanced civilization that wanted to communicate would ...

Scientists around the world have spent decades pointing radio telescopes at the sky, hoping to catch that one signal proving we’re not alone in the universe. But now researchers at SETI are asking: ...

Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when astronomers began to pick up mysterious, unknown radio sources in the cosmos. Soviet ...

It would probably not be the first question we asked, and it would not be the most urgent. But it could be one of the most revealing. Did another intelligent species develop ideas about gods, souls, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...