Imagine receiving a message from another world. Not from a distant galaxy millions of light years away, but from a planet ...

What if the closest intelligent aliens aren’t light-years away in deep space, but buried millions of years deep in our own planet’s geological history? This mind-bending concept explores whether Earth ...

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 ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of an exoplanet in an alien star system. New research suggests that radio emissions from intelligent aliens may be ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...