Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

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

“If history is any guide, then perhaps the first signatures of extraterrestrial intelligence will too be highly atypical, ‘loud’ examples of their broader class.” In that line from The Eschatian ...

For four decades, many SETI experiments have focused on finding sharp spikes in frequency but the new study says signals may not stay narrow as they travel away from their home system.

One of the longest-standing techniques in humanity’s search for life beyond Earth may be causing scientists to miss alien ...

In the endless search for technosignatures—signs from some technologically advanced intelligent alien civilization—we’ve done everything from monitoring radio arrays to hypothesizing about whether ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the physicist who helped build the first nuclear reactor and whose name graces a unit ...