“There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember.” That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

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 ...