The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on the arXiv preprint server introduces a compelling idea about how we might ...

Imagine a super-advanced alien civilization that needs insane amounts of energy way beyond our puny solar panels and wind ...

Black holes can release enormous energy through hot disks, surrounding plasma and powerful jets, enough to support a ...

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 ...

Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has so far primarily meant focusing on one particular type of signal—and that ...

The curious minds at What If explore whether scientists have finally discovered traces of a Type II civilization.

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

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 ...

Astronomers may have been listening for alien civilizations in only a small slice of the radio spectrum while overlooking a largely unexplored range of higher frequencies. Using archived data from the ...

In 1961, Dr Frank Drake proposed a probabilistic, though highly speculative, equation to determine the number of intelligent ...