The first unmistakable sign of extraterrestrial technology may not arrive as a calm greeting. It may look more like a flare.

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel ...

A complete episode from the first season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, "Star Force: The Fugitive Alien 2," which hasn’t ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

A new Project Hail Mary clip shows Ryan Gosling figuring out how to communicate with an alien named Rocky. In the film, science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light-years from home with ...

Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens — with screensavers.

The episode begins with a cold open, in which aliens called Malcorians have discovered that Riker (Jonathan Frakes) was living among them, surgically disguised as a Malcorian. What makes this episode ...

First contact with alien life probably won’t arrive as a quiet radio whisper - scientists expect it to be loud, energetic, and impossible to miss. Powerful signals, strange bursts of radiation, or ...

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After setting social media abuzz by saying on a podcast over the weekend that aliens were real, former President Barack Obama said he didn't see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us." ...