aliens
Some Intelligent Civilizations Will Be Trapped on their Worlds
Evolution has produced a wondrously diverse variety of lifeforms here on Earth. It just so happens that talking primates with…
Could We Find Aliens Terraforming Other Worlds?
The first early humans to use fire had no inkling of what it would lead to. Fire was one of…
Maybe We Don’t Hear From Aliens Because They Choose To Go Silent
How will humanity meet its end? That's only a depressing question if you think that humanity will go on forever.…
If Aliens Are Out There, We’ll Meet Them in a Few Hundred Million Years
A new study indicates that aliens are probably out there, occupying half of the Universe, and we'll likely meet them…
An Astronomer Checked to see if There’s a Secret Message in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
One way to look for a message in the cosmic microwave background is to convert thermal fluctuations into a binary…
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” VIII: What is the Zoo Hypothesis?
Another possible resolution to the Fermi Paradox: we could all be living in some giant "nature preserve" where the aliens…
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” VI: What is the Berserker Hypothesis?
In our latest installment, we explore the possibility that the reason we haven't heard from aliens is because they've been…
SETI Researchers Release Petabytes of Data in the Search For Aliens
Breakthrough Listen, the most extensive SETI survey in history, has just made its second release of data, and its once…
How Badly Will Humanity Freak Out if We Discover Alien Life?
Scientists at Arizona State University wanted to find out what peoples' reactions would be to the announcement of the discovery…
No, NASA (Still) Has Not Discovered Proof of Alien Life
It seems that every few months or so, breathless claims surface on the internet that NASA is about to make…