Science fiction suggests that life on other planets, if it exists, is likely far more advanced than life on Earth. A recent ...

Scientists have issued a new blueprint for the day Earth receives a message from an alien civilization. Released Friday, the eight-point plan lays out how researchers should handle a potentially world ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

What if aliens invaded Earth? This hypothetical scenario explores what could happen if an extraterrestrial civilization ...

Perhaps what remains at the end of an advanced civilization is not biological, but artificial intelligence...There are ...

The age of our universe and the commonality of Earth-like planets indicates the possibility of alien civilizations either ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...

For decades, SETI researchers have focused on finding narrow-band radio signals that might stand out from the natural universe. But what if an advanced civilization that wanted to communicate would ...