If an alien civilization is millions of years ahead of us, their technology would be so advanced it would be completely ...

One of the most fantastical claims SpaceX is making during the countdown to its IPO is that it is helping create one of the ...

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly ...

For decades, scientists engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have probed the galaxy for signs of artificial radio transmissions. Beginning with Project Ozma in 1960, ...

Spacefaring civilizations are usually imagined as technological giants, centuries or millennia beyond anything humanity has today. But this episode explores a stranger possibility: under the right ...

For decades, humans have scanned for signals of alien technology emanating through the galaxy. The search highlights the contradiction between the abundance of planets and stars that stretch across ...