Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of ...

For decades, humanity has been looking for answers to unravel the mystery surrounding aliens’ existence, but they have failed ...

Sohrab Rahvar and Shahin Rouhani’s recent paper, “Constraining the Lifespan of Intelligent Technological Civilization in the Galaxy,” lays it out bluntly: Advanced civilizations last roughly 5,000 ...

We might have missed signals from aliens because they are being disrupted by the conditions of space, scientists have warned. Messages being sent from distant planets could be disrupted by activity ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from extraterrestrials. The paper, penned by researchers at the SETI (Search ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.

This ship was huge. It was like a city-sized ship. And there was hundreds of beings on board,” said Debbie Solaris, a military veteran and one of six panelists sharing their alien encounters with a ...

Scientists studying venomous insects made an unexpected discovery inside a simple lunchbox container — one that could help ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

New research from King’s College London found that compulsive traits may be driven by uncertainty about the future.

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...