Lunar regolith may hold microscopic alien debris, and scientists plan to excavate one cubic meter of Moon soil to find out.

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is likely here to stay. Its ravenous need for computational power has overwhelmed chip manufacturers and power companies alike. While our current AI ...

Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar ...

The research, led by a SETI scientist, takes a completely different approach to the existing efforts of searching for life beyond our planet.

Imagine receiving a message from another world. Not from a distant galaxy millions of light years away, but from a planet ...

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 ...

There has long been debate about the existence of extraterrestrial life and advanced alien civilizations out there in the ...

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 ...

Seven Rasmussen, an astrobiologist and author of the new book Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, gives readers a tour of the ...

Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when astronomers began to pick up mysterious, unknown radio sources in the cosmos. Soviet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...