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 ...

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 ...

Physicist Richard Feynman argued that fundamental limits of physics, biology, and time make interstellar contact between civilizations effectively impossible. He cited vast distances, the speed of ...

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 ...

Researchers are considering the fact that there might be already the presence of very developed aliens civilizations which are out of reach of the humans. This theory is based on an assumption. The ...

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 ...

"There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember." That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...

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 ...