The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...
Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.
Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping ...
Estimating the chance of getting a message from life beyond Earth, say within the next decade, isn’t easy. Even the best experts are reluctant to offer precise odds. “Anybody who gave you a figure ...
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research ...
That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech ’s new story, “ Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, ...
The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...
SETI scientists observing a pulsar’s radio pulses over time are redefining how astronomers time pulsars and search for ...
What new methods can be used to detect alien technosignatures? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from Pennsylvania ...
The search for extraterrestrial life, a long-standing pursuit dating back to antiquity, has shifted from focusing solely on direct observation to incorporating methods like spectroscopic analysis of ...