A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research ...

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 ...

One proposed solution to the Fermi Paradox suggests that intelligent civilizations remain silent by necessity. 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 ...

Interstellar objects such as Comet 3I/ATLAS can be sent by alien civilizations to "sow" life on Earth. At the same time, it is almost impossible that for the entire time of Earth's existence the Earth ...

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ourselves to the Milky Way galaxy, which is the galaxy that contains the solar system, it is said that there are 40 billion planets located in the habitable zone where life is likely to be born. Given ...

There are many attempts to get humanity to be found by extraterrestrial civilization, such as the In considering how many hostile extraterrestrial civilizations are in the galaxy, Alberto Caballero, ...