Extraterrestrial
What if we’re truly alone?
At least once, you’ve looked up at the night sky and asked the same longstanding question we’ve all asked at…
How Should the World’s Governments Respond if We Detect an Alien Civilization?
Science fiction is the realm where people traditionally wrestle with the idea of contact with an ETI (Extraterrestrial Intelligence.) But…
Upcoming Missions Could Search for Ancient Alien Technology Within the Solar System
In a recent report, researchers with the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center recommend that we search for extraterrestrial intelligence here…
Civilizations Don’t Even Need Space Ships to Migrate From Star System to Star System
In about 5 billion years, the Sun will leave the main sequence and become a red giant. It'll expand and…
Maybe We Don’t Hear From Aliens Because They Choose To Go Silent
How will humanity meet its end? That's only a depressing question if you think that humanity will go on forever.…
What is the Kardashev Scale?
In 1961, Russian-Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev published a paper where he introduced the Kardashev Scale, a means of classifying extraterrestrial…
What is the Arecibo Message?
In 1974, the famous Arecibo Message was sent into space, humanity's first and only attempt at messaging extraterrestrial intelligence.
If Alien Probes are Already in the Solar System, Maybe we Could Detect Them Calling Home
According to a new study, alien probes may permeate the galaxy, and could be detected in the Solar System when…
Not Saying it was Aliens, but ‘Oumuamua Probably Wasn’t a Nitrogen Iceberg…
In a recent paper, Amir Siraj and Prof. Loeb show that the "nitrogen iceberg" theory cannot explain the mysterious nature…
NASA is Getting Serious About the Search for Life in the Universe
Frameworks are a valuable tool in science. They give context to sometimes abstract concepts such as “how powerful can an…