Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a ...

The zodiacal light – so called because it appears within the same belt of constellations as the zodiac signs (and is a light) – looks like a huge ghostly pyramid in the sky, its vertical axis tilted ...

The universe is a place of unimaginable beauty and wonder—shimmering galaxies that dance across the cosmic stage, nebulae ...

The views from up in the trees showcase the beautiful southern Indiana landscape, with its rolling hills and forests creating ...

The Northern State Old Farm Area near Sedro-Woolley is exactly that kind of place, a sprawling agricultural complex that looks like everyone just walked away one day and never returned. These aren’t ...

The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

Theoretically, it’s impossible for us to perceive a 4D creature. That is, unless it broke into our three-dimensional reality.

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

Interstellar has arguably changed movies more than The Dark Knight, and Project Hail Mary is evidence.

Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of ...