What's up with those machines?

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

Its pulsing, pounding, circus-like alien invasion may not be as widespread as it once was, but Blue Man Group is still blowing minds around the world. The current North American tour brings its one-of ...

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of the United States. In a recent interview, Barack Obama became the first ...

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 ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft has captured detailed images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, offering ...

Scientists in southern Spain are building next-generation telescopes to scan thousands of stars for signs of alien life.

In truth, it can be more fun to watch a "bad" music video than a "good" one (after all, Beavis and Butthead made a whole show ...

“The universe is not as quiet as we were told.” The line belongs to a dramatic retelling of a disputed signal claim, but it captures a sober scientific problem: the first technosignature humanity ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from a European Space Agency orbiter on its way to Jupiter.