Suppose an alien civilization discovers Earth and decides to investigate. Before it chooses a landing site or considers how ...

The aliens were next door, and somebody killed them. That’s the story plasma physicist John Brandenburg, PhD, tells about ...

Claims that aliens are already here are everywhere, but proving them is another matter. The strongest cases become more ...

A new study proposes searching the moon for remnants of ancient extraterrestrial technology. Researchers suggest the moon's surface could preserve microscopic "technosignatures" left by alien ...

With billions of potentially habitable worlds scattered across the universe, alien civilizations should be out there — yet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Distance, light speed, biology, and time may explain why alien civilizations never meet. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) "There ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

We’ve likely had at least one close encounter of the 3I kind before. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that not only does 3I/ATLAS potentially have alien origins, but that this wouldn’t be the first ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 If scientists sift through the Moon’s surface, we could find microscopic dust suggesting alien life, an Oxford astrophysicist suggested NASA/NASA via Getty ...