In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Across the expansive history of the "Star Trek" franchise, humanity has encountered a growing number of alien races, many of whom that are exceedingly formidable when crossed. These are civilizations ...

A staple of the "Star Trek" franchise since its earliest days is its inclusion of imaginative extraterrestrial characters. Whether as members of Starfleet vessels or villains-of-the-week, the ...

If an alien civilization is millions of years ahead of us, their technology would be so advanced it would be completely ...

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 ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

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Warhammer 40k has had its fair share of races that have us begging for more details. These are our favorite Mystery Races of ...

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

For decades, humans have scanned for signals of alien technology emanating through the galaxy. The search highlights the contradiction between the abundance of planets and stars that stretch across ...