Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

When astronomers first picked up a perfectly regular radio heartbeat from deep space in 1967, some of them half-jokingly ...

Elon Musk makes first Davos appearance, joins Larry on stage and jokes about aliens, peace deals, and pension funds.

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent ...

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new paper suggests that alien civilizations may communicate in ways that we do not currently ...

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 ...

Since the interstellar object (ISO) 3I/ATLAS was first discovered on July 1, 2025, it has garnered much attention, including speculation, hopes and fears that it may somehow contain evidence of ...

One proposed solution to the Fermi Paradox suggests that intelligent civilizations remain silent by necessity. Advanced technology makes detection equivalent to exposure, and exposure could invite ...

The depiction of humanity's 'first contact' with alien life has been the subject of countless sci-fi films and novels, but a new research paper argues that if we ever discover the existence of alien ...