In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

The quest to find extraterrestrial life is an unending pursuit of science, and one aspect of this search revolves around technosignatures. Detectable from as far as 40 light-years away, Earth’s ...

We may be missing out on ultra-narrow radio signals sent by technologically advanced civilizations, a new study claims. The study shows that a star’s violent eruptions near an alien planet may distort ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.

“There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember.” That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...