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 ...

For more than half a century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been built ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In real life, humanity’s search for extraterrestrial life has only intensified since we first looked to the stars and wondered who ...

In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...

When people imagine first contact with aliens, they often picture giant ships in the sky or wise beings sending peaceful messages. A new scientific idea suggests something very different. According to ...

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 ...

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

Advanced alien civilizations may communicate via a series of flashing lights, similar to how fireflies do, a new paper hints. This would potentially make extraterrestrials much harder to spot if we ...

Astronomer Dr. David Kipping argued that we're more likely to meet a "unusually loud" extraterrestrials whose empire is on the decline. When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to ...