Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most ...

Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...

Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars.

In her new book "First Contact," journalist Becky Ferreira explores the scientific search for alien life, our cultural ...

The Extraterrestrial Highway in south central Nevada runs through one of the darkest and most desolate stretches of the ...

Planets lacking plate tectonics and sufficient carbon dioxide and oxygen could make advanced civilizations like ours ...

Lacki’s study, “Artificial Broadcasts as Galactic Populations,” has been posted to the preprint science journal arXiv. In it, he argues radio-bright galaxies may be bursting at the seams with advanced ...

Humans are finally building the technology that could tell us where to look, when to look, and what signs to watch for. What might we find? Why does it matter?

The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect. We could ...

New planet is one of the best ever hopes for seeing alien life, scientists say - Less than 20 light years away, we could soon ...

Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light ...