In an exclusive interview with Starlust, astronomer Vishal Gajjar of the SETI Institute discusses how stars may be ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially ...

A nihilistic alien civilization sounds like one that would simply lose hope, abandon progress, and fade away. But this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of a telescope under a starry sky and a planet in space. Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your ...

A new scientific framework suggests that even if signals or physical traces from alien civilizations reached Earth, detecting ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

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 ...