Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

The curious minds at What If explore the possibility of an alien civilization existing on Proxima b, imagining how they might ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” Richard Feynman’s reflection lingers because it feels personal.

What kind of government doesn’t want to keep its own law-abiding population safe and secure, by locking up as many violent ...

There have been around 945 episodes of Star Trek, spread across more than a dozen shows, aired over sixty years. Yet for all the times Starfleet crew members have probed the intricacies of alien civil ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

What if aliens heard us broadcasting our existence?

Although they were popular at the time, sci-fi series like Babylon 5 and The Sarah Jane Adventures, feel like they were meant ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

A recent study investigates whether undetected alien signals have already traversed Earth, highlighting the limitations of our detection technology.