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While can still only hazard a guess as to what's behind fast radio bursts, the latest detection is only adding to the mystery.

Mysterious Signals From Space Are Getting Stranger, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Some astronomers suggest that aliens may have already spotted us, we just don't know it yet, a tantalizing theory.

Aliens May Already Know We Exist, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

What if the James Webb Space Telescope was pointed at an exoplanet exactly like the Earth? Would it recognize a civilization like ours?

James Webb Space Telescope

If the James Webb Spotted a Planet Exactly Like Earth, Would Scientists Notice Our Civilization?

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard alien-hunter Avi Loeb posited that superhuman aliens could be building universes in labs and that his haters are just "jealous."

Harvard Professor Says Godlike Aliens May Be Creating Universes in Labs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists at the SETI Institute have put together a simulated alien signal to see if we have the ability to decode it.

Earth Receiving Simulated Alien Signal From Mars

By Victor Tangermann

We'd need an astronomical amount of resources to construct a Dyson sphere around the Sun, like deconstructing an entire Jupiter-sized planet.

Building a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun Would Be Easy if We Used Jupiter for Raw Materials

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, AI tools might seriously improve humanity's chances of discovering aliens on Mars — and beyond.

Scientists Want to Use AI to Hunt for Aliens on Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group that uses AI to search for alien life has found some strange radio signals from space — and they're confused about its origins.

Artificial Intelligence

Alien-Detecting AI Finds Eight “Suspicious” Signals

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has announced details about the multi-billion successor to its groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope called the Habitable Worlds Observatory.

NASA Unveils Plan for Giant Telescope to Spot Life on Alien Planets

By Victor Tangermann

If aliens were to be in touch tomorrow, humanity would be ill-prepared, scientists warn — something that needs to change as soon as possible.

Scientists Worried Humankind Will Descend Into Chaos If We Ever Discover an Alien Signal

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has proposed that we could use existing Earth-based observatories to hunt for highly intelligent alien life forms and their advanced warp drive technologies.

Scientists Propose Method for Detecting Alien Warp Drive Activity

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists have provided a heartbreaking theory for why we haven't yet met any alien lifeforms — because they destroyed themselves before we could.

NASA Scientists Suggest The Reason We Haven’t Found Aliens Is They All Killed Themselves

By Noor Al-Sibai

The University of St. Andrews announced the formation of a new research hub, bringing together the brightest minds to prepare humanity for first contact.

Scientists Preparing for Alien Contact

By Victor Tangermann

Infamous Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has released a new study that claims there could be an absurd amount of alien spacecraft already in our backyard.

Research Claims There Might Be Up to 4 Quintillion Alien Spacecraft in Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Combing through over 400 previous SETI surveys of our stars,scientists find that our telescopes pick up way more useful information than once thought,

New Project Scanning Old Data for Signs of Alien Civilizations

By Frank Landymore

A Swiss scientist has made a bold prediction about the discovery of alien life — and his reasoning is honestly really sound.

Swiss Government Scientist Says We May Be on the Brink of Discovering Alien Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have discovered two "Super-Earth" planets orbiting a nearby dwarf star— and one of them may actually be habitable.

Scientists Discover Nearby “Super-Earth” That May Support Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astrophysicist and Harvard professor Avi Loeb is convinced that a meteor that crashed into the ocean years ago may have been alien in origin.

Experts Puzzled by Harvard Scientist Looking for Alien Wreckage in Ocean

By Frank Landymore

A team of scientists made a big splash, announcing they had received "suspicious signals." But they're likely the result of radio frequency interference.

Sorry, But New Signal Is Definitely Not Aliens, Says Scientist Working on Project

By Victor Tangermann

During the undocking of Roscosmos spacecraft Progress MS-18, ISS Cosmonaut Sergey Korsakav discovered "stowaways" gripping the un-crewed freighter.

No, These Aren’t Weird Visitors on the Outside of the Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a strange new paper, one researcher calculates that there are four "malicious" alien civilizations in the Milky Way alone.

Study: There May Be as Many as Four Evil Civilizations in Our Galaxy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of astronomers have used the Murchison Widefield Array, a massive network of over 4,000 antennas in the Australian desert, to look for aliens.

Scientists Fail to Spot Aliens After Scanning Skies for Seven Whole Hours

By Victor Tangermann

NASA researcher Ann Marie Cody spoke to Vice about how exactly the agency and the SETI Institute is trying to find alien megastructures.

Science & Energy

NASA Scientist Describes Hunt for Alien Megastructures

By Tony Ho Tran

Astrophysicist Says Scientists Need to Stop Searching for Alien Civilizations

Astrophysicist Says Scientists Need to Stop Searching for Alien Civilizations

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astrophysicists are excited about the prospect of launching the next groundbreaking space telescope to take pictures of potentially habitable worlds.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Are Pushing for a Massive Alien-Hunting Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

NASA boss Bill Nelson made some eyebrow-raising remarks about possible connections between military sightings of UFOs and the search for alien life.

Head of NASA Suggests That UFOs Could Be Alien Technology

By Jon Christian

According to this researcher, if we ever make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, we're unlikely to find a group of little green Martians.

Artificial Intelligence

Astronomer: Aliens Will Most Likely Resemble AI if We Ever Make Contact

By Victor Tangermann

Professor and astrophysicist Adam Frank is not impressed by recent reports of UFOs.

Robots and Machines

Astrophysicist Says Alien UFO Theories Are Stupid

By Victor Tangermann

A viral post claims that odd-looking skulls are evidence of alien life, but an expert say that the skulls came from plain old human beings.

Science & Energy

These Alien-Looking Skulls Are Actually Human, Expert Says

By Jon Christian

Astronomers may be able to spot alien technosignatures, including the heat given off by satellite constellations like the one launched by Starlink.

Science & Energy

Scientist: We Should Be Searching for the Alien Version of Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are hard at work tracking down any alien civilizations that might be out there even though there's no guarantee they wouldn't attack us.

Science & Energy

SETI Research Director Warns of “Malevolent” Alien Civilizations

By Dan Robitzski

Avi Loeb and the Great Unknown

Avi Loeb and the Great Unknown

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astrophysics professor Avi Loeb called on the scientific community to search not just for mysterious radio signals, but for alien probes as well.

Science & Energy

Harvard Astronomer Says We Should Hunt for Alien Probes

By Victor Tangermann

The SETI Institute has finally chimed in on the mysterious discovery of a signal emanating from the Sun's closest star neighbor Proxima Centauri.

Science & Energy

SETI Institute Admits That Proxima Centauri Signal Is Very Strange

By Victor Tangermann

A Very Strange Radio Signal Is Coming From the Closest Star

By Jon Christian

Newly released footage, including several drone shots, shows the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsing in on itself.

Science & Energy

Dramatic Drone Video Shows Collapse of Alien-Hunting Observatory

By Victor Tangermann

SETI Institute senior astronomer Seth Shostak is willing to bet you a cup of joe that we will find aliens by 2036, The Debrief reports.

SETI Institute Scientist Says We’ll Find Aliens by 2036

By Victor Tangermann

In the latest perplexing turn of events, state officials say the a mysterious monolith has vanished from the Utah desert.

Robots and Machines

Mystery “Monolith” Disappears From Utah Desert

By Jon Christian

The National Science Foundation has announced that the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is officially being decommissioned and demolished.

Science & Energy

Iconic Arecibo Alien-Hunting Observatory Will Be Demolished

By Victor Tangermann

The massive alien hunting radio telescope at the Aericbo Observatory is at risk of collapse after several support cables failed leaving extensive damage.

Science & Energy

Giant Arecibo SETI Telescope Could Collapse After Mysterious Damage

By Victor Tangermann

More bad news for the alien-hunting Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico: a second cable has fallen, crushing the intricate reflector dish below.

Science & Energy

More Damage Reported at Alien-Hunting SETI Facility

By Victor Tangermann

So far, the hunt for extraterrestrial life hasn't succeeded. But thankfully, there are loads of star systems with a clear view of us instead.

Aliens in These Star Systems Could See Life on Earth, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified 24 distant exoplanets that all seem to have even better conditions for hosting life than Earth does.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: These 24 Exoplanets May Be Better for Life Than Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf suggests that it would be much easier to find intelligent extraterrestrial life while it's facing the apocalypse.

Science & Energy

Scientist: Aliens Facing the Apocalypse Would Be Easier to Find

By Dan Robitzski

Cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, who's heading to the International Space Station next month on a Soyuz rocket, says he would be nice to any aliens he met.

Space-Bound Cosmonaut: If I Meet Aliens, I Will Be Nice to Them

By Jon Christian

After checking 10 million stars for signs of a technological extraterrestrial civilization, a team of SETI scientists came back with nothing.

Scientists Search 10 Million Stars, See No Signs of Alien Civilization

By Dan Robitzski

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is now listening for radio transmissions from 200 times more star systems it was before.

Science & Energy

SETI Team Increases Number of Stars That Might Host Life by 200x

By Dan Robitzski

The Arecibo Observatory, a staple of the SETI research community, will be out of commission for months after a supper cable mysteriously fell.

Science & Energy

SETI Telescope Down for Months After Mysterious Damage

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard astronomers are collaborating on a new project to scan the skies for signs of technological signatures from alien civilizations.

Science & Energy

NASA Funds Harvard Hunt for Alien “Technological Civilizations”

By Victor Tangermann

Experts say that China is becoming the new international leader in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. They hope for newfound international cooperation.

Science & Energy

Experts: China Is Pulling Ahead in Race to Identify Extraterrestrials

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has awarded a Phase 1 grant for a Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the far side of the Moon that could one day be deployed by wall-climbing robots.

Science & Energy

NASA Funds Giant Radio Telescope Concept on Far Side of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The director of the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory told the BBC that alien hunting for extra terrestrials should be taken more seriously.

Science & Energy

SETI Scientist: Nobody Takes Alien Hunting Seriously

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard Prof: Deep Space Signal May Be From Alien Civilization

Science & Energy

Harvard Prof: Deep Space Signal May Be From Alien Civilization

By Jon Christian

There’s something remarkably human in our search for aliens among the stars and goal of learning more about life in general to learn more about ourselves.

Science & Energy

Could Searching for Alien Life Attract Hostile Extraterrestrials?

Pennsylvania State University is currently developing a center focused on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

Penn State’s SETI Center Could Legitimize Alien Research

By Kristin Houser

While it's an extremely long shot, a SETI researcher says there's a chance that ancient aliens visited our solar system to spy on Earth.

Science & Energy

SETI Scientist: Aliens May Have Left a Spy Probe Orbiting the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists who work on extraterrestrial-seeking projects like SETI report a stigma within science that gets their work dismissed and funding killed.

Science & Energy

Scientists Are Terrified of SETI Research

By Dan Robitzski

A massive new survey is designed to determine how the general public feels about aliens and what humans should do if ET ever reaches out.

Scientists Want Your Input on Our Alien Response Plan

By Kristin Houser

A new paper suggests that we could spot an alien civilization by looking for signs of starships powered by the radiation thrown off by small black hole.

New SETI Plan: Detect Alien Starships Powered by Black Holes

By Jon Christian

In a new interview with The Times, University of St. Andrews astronomer Martin Dominik cautioned against sending messages into the unknown of deep space.

Astronomer Warns Against SETI: “Maybe They Will Come and Eat Us.”

By Jon Christian

The chair of Harvard University's Astronomy Department defended his controversial hypothesis that an interstellar object could be an alien probe.

Harvard Astronomer Defends Hypothesis That Object Is Alien Probe

By Jon Christian

In a new interview, a Harvard astronomer opens up about the hunt for alien life — and what first alien contact would mean for human civilization.

Harvard Astronomer Predicts What First Alien Contact Will Be Like

By Jon Christian

Yes, a NASA Scientist Said Aliens May Have Visited Earth. But There’s Some Nuance

Science & Energy

Yes, a NASA Scientist Said Aliens May Have Visited Earth. But There’s Some Nuance

By Sarah Marquart

A giant space laser, built with mostly-existing technology, could serve as a homing beacon for any aliens that might be out there.

A Giant Space Laser on Earth Could Blast Messages at Alien Planets

By Dan Robitzski