Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission. And it could be coming from one of the nearest ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

Once small enough, these technograins might gain a trip out of its host solar system by a solar wind that overcomes the ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

In the following six books, each writer looks to space to skillfully explore what it means to live on Earth. Salvation and ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is arguing that our inaugural contact is more likely to be a distress call, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate also known as water bears—are the only animals observed to survive the intense radiation and ...

In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.