The search for intelligent alien life goes far beyond listening for simple radio signals. This documentary explores how ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Are we alone in the Universe? With more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe and at least 500 billion planets ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously large black holes” might be used by alien civilisations, and what makes the ...

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House scientific advisory council on UFOs.

A polarizing Harvard astronomer has been appointed to lead a Trump administration panel studying UFOs. Avi Loeb is leading a ...

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

Last year, an interstellar traveler entered our solar system. Some speculated that it was an alien spacecraft, but it turned ...

Scientists explore the Fermi paradox, suggesting that alien civilisations may self-destruct before becoming detectable, ...

Lionel Messi is the Lionel Messi of Lionel Messis. Sorry, hold on—let me try that again. What I meant to say was: Lionel ...

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio signal that appeared to originate from beyond the Milky Way. This happened when ...