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

Humans have created countless inventions that shape our lives in amazing ways. Some are practical, some are revolutionary, and some are simply fascinating. But if aliens suddenly appeared, which ...

THE KARDASHEV SCALE. We have no idea what an alien civilization would look like. Humans are evolved primates. What if an alien species is reptilian? Or more like an insect? Or a hybrid of these? Or ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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