The quest to find extraterrestrial life is an unending pursuit of science, and one aspect of this search revolves around technosignatures. Detectable from as far as 40 light-years away, Earth’s ...
A new study published in the journal Astrophysical has outlined a novel method that could be used to detect advanced alien civilizations remotely. The premise is to look for signs of nuclear fusion on ...
As the universe ages, so too do its stars. The Sun, our life-giving star, will eventually fade, plunging Earth into an ...
When people imagine first contact with aliens, they often picture giant ships in the sky or wise beings sending peaceful messages. A new scientific idea suggests something very different. According to ...
In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...
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 ...
A collaborative project dubbed “A Sign in Space” is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for simulating a message to Earth from intelligent aliens. The project involved beaming an encoded message ...