Speculative alien messages raise unsettling possibilities about cosmic survival, warning that advanced civilizations may ...

Aliens are going to land on this planet centuries from now and wonder two things. One will be what led to the collapse of ...

Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to ...

But now, 60 years after the Prime Directive was introduced to Star Trek lore, Starfleet Academy has just evolved the ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

There is a scene in the movie version of Carl Sagan’s book Contact where the main character, an astronomer who has detected the first radio signal from an alien civilization, is being considered for ...

By examining the potential existence of Dyson spheres, a University of Glasgow scientist aims to guide the search for alien ...

Embarking on a spur of the moment astronomy lesson, Musk explained that the sun makes up some 99.8% of mass of the solar system, and that Jupiter, the biggest planet, is just kind of a rounding error ...

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

The curious minds at What If explore the possibility of an alien civilization existing on Proxima b, imagining how they might ...

Elon Musk discussed his views on whether aliens exist during a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Newsweek reached out to Musk’s company SpaceX for additional comment via ...