A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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Scientists have proposed that advanced alien civilizations could build a Dyson sphere around a black hole instead of a star. Black holes can release enormous amounts of energy through their accretion ...

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 ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

We've all grown up dreaming of aliens landing on the Earth or laser beaming across the sky; well, either way, it's sci-fi and dramatic. But what if th.

The creators of Game of Thrones have managed to launch another successful TV franchise on Netflix; the streaming service has ...

Among her most ominous forecasts was a warning that World War III would erupt in 2026 — a prediction made more unsettling by ...

The CIA told Greenewald in a formal response to his FOIA that it will “neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence ...

"Star Trek" is home to countless alien species, many of whom offer beloved characters. Some are not. We rank the 10 most ...

And even if they were to happen across the probes, finding a way for aliens to discover where and when they were made is not ...