Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced ...

When Illumination founder and chief executive Chris Meledandri earlier this month received a star on the Hollywood Walk of ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is the latest movie to tackle the subject of first contact, but these masterpieces ...

Even at this early stage in our spacefaring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other ...

A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to ...

There is something almost offensive about a sky so full of stars and so empty of company. That is what gives Richard ...

Between the mid-1970s and early 1980s, two physicists, Michael Hart and Frank Tipler, published a controversial series of papers arguing that extraterrestrial intelligence didn't exist. As they argued ...

In ‘Disclosure Day’ the director reflects on how humanity would confront the discovery that we are not alone, something he is ...

Star Trek fans' longstanding belief that V'Ger created the Borg is contradicted by several elements of the franchise's canon.

If and when SETI discovers alien life, then a revised Declaration of Principles guarantees that once the discovery has been ...