Imagine a super-advanced alien civilization that needs insane amounts of energy way beyond our puny solar panels and wind turbines to power their mega-cities, AI overlords, or whatever interstellar ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

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For years, NASA has searched for life beyond Earth. Some social media users claim the agency recently announced its success with the mission. A Facebook post shared April 20 includes a link to a 2022 ...

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China’s science ministry says they’ve picked up signals on one of their telescopes that could be signs of an alien civilization. The scientists at Beijing Normal University say that the signals were ...

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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 ...

If you're a fan of science-fiction programs and movies, you might have recognized a pattern. Aliens, lots of times, look like us. They might have interesting forehead wrinkles, or pointy ears, but the ...