Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien ...

The Fermi Paradox asks a simple but unsettling question: if the universe is so vast, why haven’t we found evidence of alien civilizations? Scientists have proposed many explanations, but some of the ...

While it sounds like the plot of an Andy Weir novel. If an advanced civilization wanted to tap nearly all the power of its ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals ...

But the creepiest layer of Marathon ’s mythology involves entities called the W’rkncacnter — primordial forces of chaos so dangerous they were imprisoned inside stars, black holes, and only ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did Obama confirm the existence of aliens, only to walk it back? After saying “they’re real” on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast, the ...