It is no secret that humans are the dominant species on Earth. And with no confirmed evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, we often assume we are also the most advanced civilization ...

Technosignature research is heating up, with plenty of papers speculating on the nature, and sometimes the longevity, of signals created by technically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. While ...

Adrift in a great sea of stars, we must surely not be alone. It's hard not to look at the night sky and think about the possibility of other civilizations out there. From the philosophical ...

The big-idea explorers at Aperture examine where humanity stands among the universe's most advanced civilizations.

Hongying Chen is on a mission to find the most technologically advanced aliens out there. “Kardashev Type III civilization (K3) is a kind of very advanced civilization that is capable of fueling the ...

"We propose it's a natural technological evolution that an advanced civilization could make," Ravi Kopparapu, a NASA planetary scientist who led the research published in the Astrophysical Journal, ...

Chilling Reasons We Haven’t Made Contact With Aliens Yet For decades, the idea of making contact with extraterrestrial life ...

If life is common in our Universe, and we have every reason to suspect it is, why do we not see evidence of it everywhere? This is the essence of the Fermi Paradox, a question that has plagued ...

Serious scientists at the renowned Harvard University have put forward the startling hypothesis that an unknown, technologically advanced civilization could have been hiding on our planet for ...

Should we send messages into space in an effort to contact intelligent extra-terrestrial civilizations? Or should be fear them attacking us and transmit nothing? Two conflicting and oft-heard ...