A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

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 ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially ...

In an exclusive interview with Starlust, astronomer Vishal Gajjar of the SETI Institute discusses how stars may be responsible for the distortion of alien signals.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is a dream of humanity, but advanced extraterrestrial civilizations do not necessarily communicate in the same way as humans. A paper published on ...

Nearly every week, I see newspapers and magazines that seemed fine suddenly going out of business. Or a private equity fund buying up a chain of newspapers that had been serving communities for ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Luis Calçada on Flickr Under the Milky Way Galaxy. BI Answers: How many planets in the universe have intelligent alien life? More important than finding life on another planet would be communicating ...