Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has focused on subtle whispers in the cosmic noise, the faint, ...

The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. One of the persistent ...

Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality (Whiteson & Warner, 2025) is a mind-bending exploration into what it would mean, scientifically and ...

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episodes 1 & 2. The Alien franchise has always been focused on the race for immortality, and Noah Hawley's perfect organism, the FX original ...

That is where Anonymous Chicken keeps tripping up. A species that uses touch or echolocation as its primary sense and has manipulative appendages could potentially develop a technological civilization ...