Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.
A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...
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Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on ...
A new SETI methodology focuses on detecting the "spillover" from directed interstellar communications, mirroring how we communicate with our own spacecraft, rather than relying on broad, speculative ...
Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality (Whiteson & Warner, 2025) is a mind-bending exploration into what it would mean, scientifically and ...