Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...
As the universe ages, so too do its stars. The Sun, our life-giving star, will eventually fade, plunging Earth into an ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: dottedhippo via Getty Images An advanced alien civilization may want to cruise around the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A cosmologist suggests we should look for exploration, along with energy signatures, to try and find aliens. Dyson spheres of some kind may be built to harvest energy from dark matter in black holes.