For years, the Fermi Paradox has been framed as a mystery about alien civilizations and why none seem to be out there. But this episode flips that question around and asks something stranger: what if ...

A nihilistic alien civilization sounds like one that would simply lose hope, abandon progress, and fade away. But this ...

Alien megastructures built to harvest stellar energy or alter the orbits of stars may be physically feasible, according to a ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially ...

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

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Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their formation but ours managed to hit. The key to solving the mystery of the ...

Where are all the aliens? No, I don’t mean microbes on Mars or creatures swimming beneath the ice crusts of Europa or Enceladus, but honest-to-God intelligent aliens, capable of space travel? The ...

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Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures? Reading time 3 minutes Assuming aliens do physics like us but are ...