Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures ...

Since the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960, scientists have been scanning the Milky Way for signs of advanced alien civilizations. They have looked for unusual ...

Now, there may be an answer, according to a new paper published on the preprint site arXiv: The aliens are out there, alright ...

I was trying to watch a TED Talk the other day — British mathematician Hannah Fry discussing ‘The Mathematics of Love’ — but ...

The Fermi Paradox asks a simple but unsettling question: if the universe is so vast, why haven’t we found evidence of alien ...

The curious minds at What If explore the possibility of an alien civilization existing on Proxima b, imagining how they might ...

Did Obama confirm the existence of aliens, only to walk it back? After saying “they’re real” on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast, the former president clarified that statistically, extraterrestrial life ...