For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has largely operated on the assumption ...

You might think this column is about UFOs and the Pentagon's recent declassified files. It's not. We're talking about technosignatures, the evidence of alien technology: a radio or laser signal, ...

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 ...

For generations, humans have imagined what it would be like to discover life beyond Earth. Would alien beings look anything like us? Would they communicate through sounds, signals, or something ...