Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

Some scientists believe the sheer number of stars, planets and potentially habitable environments in space makes ...

When scientists search for alien life, they usually look for planets that resemble Earth. The reasoning is simple. Every known living thing depends on liquid water, carbon based chemistry, and the ...

Breakthrough Listen is one of the projects of the Breakthrough Initiatives and is a leading mainstream scientific initiative ...

The United States government's recent release of hundreds of previously classified unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg ...

Are there no alien signals to find... or do we need to update how we search for them? We’ve been looking for messages from the stars ever since Frank Drake pointed the Green Bank radio telescope at ...

(via Big Think) Astrophysicist Sara Seager has spent decades expanding how we search for life beyond Earth: not by asking what we would look like out there, but by imagining forms of intelligence that ...

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