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 ...

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

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

A civilization capable of interstellar travel may also be one that has moved beyond conquest, excess and ecological self-destruction — and it therefore may not want to talk to us.

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

John Carpenter proved he could do far more than horror classics in this formulaic yet compelling 1984 film starring Jeff ...

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

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.