Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations so advanced they seem like gods, with powers that look supernatural to anyone beneath them. But this episode asks a darker and more fascinating ...

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 ...

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Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

The history of astronomical discovery shows that many of the most detectable phenomena, especially detection firsts, are not ...

A new scientific framework suggests that even if signals or physical traces from alien civilizations reached Earth, detecting ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

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 ...

Where are all the aliens? No, I don’t mean microbes on Mars or creatures swimming beneath the ice crusts of Europa or Enceladus, but honest-to-God intelligent aliens, capable of space travel? The ...