This documentary delves into the scientific and theoretical search for intelligent life beyond Earth, examining how humanity ...

When you're looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you're looking for and to go about it in the most efficient way. But work so far has generally not done so, writes ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

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 ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been guided by one hopeful assumption: somewhere in the galaxy, ...

If an alien civilization is millions of years ahead of us, their technology would be so advanced it would be completely indistinguishable from magic.

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 ...