Are we really aliens out there, or are we all alone in the universe? Unsurprisingly, scientists think about it too. Now, a ...

A new interpretation of the famous Drake equation finds little reason to be optimistic about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Only a small fraction of our galaxy has been studied and the question of whether aliens exist is something scientists have been trying to understand, explore and figure out for a long time.

We literally fight against the second law of thermodynamics to forge these exquisitely ordered, low-entropy structures out of raw materials that are decidedly high entropy in their messy natural ...

Aliens can only see what we’ve built after we’ve already built it, and it takes time for those light signals from our constructions to make their way out into the cosmos.

Even if we were to look attractive enough for aliens to send a message, or vice versa, it could take dozens, if not hundreds, of lightyears to reach us. In contrast, ...

We’ve still not found aliens, even though a majority of the scientific community, as well as the general public, believe they exist. Mind you, radio waves from the cosmos are commonplace, ...

When we turn to “complex” extraterrestrial life or “intelligent” aliens, our results were 67.4% agreement, and 58.2% agreement, respectively for astrobiologists and other scientists. So, scientists ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start. “That’s the ...

The problem facing SETI scientists is that, based on observations so far, F probably is not near 1; otherwise, we would have noticed by now that we are not alone, assuming that intelligent aliens ...