The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: Does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass ...

The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

The views from up in the trees showcase the beautiful southern Indiana landscape, with its rolling hills and forests creating ...

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

AlterEgo, a company born out of MIT's Media Lab, recently shared a demo of its "silent speech" device that looks like ...

"If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there." ...

During the season six premiere episode of "The Proof Is Out There" a high-tech U.S. military camera catches alien technology flying over the Persian Gulf, leading to further investigation and ...

But the creepiest layer of Marathon ’s mythology involves entities called the W’rkncacnter — primordial forces of chaos so dangerous they were imprisoned inside stars, black holes, and only ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...