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

Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens -- with screensavers.

A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his classic science fiction novel Contact, Carl Sagan remarked, “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems ...

Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...

A recent theory proposed by a NASA scientist suggests that extraterrestrial civilizations may not possess the wildly advanced technology that many UFO enthusiasts expect. This perspective, which ...

A new study suggests a novel approach in the long-running scientific endeavor to find intelligent life beyond Earth. Instead of casting a wide, speculative net across the cosmos, researchers from Penn ...