A NASA scientist has detailed the bizarre reason aliens have stopped trying to contact humans, and the reason behind it might ...

An astrophysicist has proposed an intriguing explanation for why humanity has never made contact with an extraterrestrial ...

Imagine if the nearest intelligent aliens were not across the street, not across the solar system, but on the far side of the Milky Way, some 33,000 light-years away from Earth. That’s the scenario ...

The Drake Equation helps scientists estimate the odds of finding intelligent alien civilizations. It’s an age-old question: Do aliens exist? And what are the odds we’ll make contact? A famous ...

One of the most profound questions ever asked is, do aliens exist? NASA has worked to understand, explore, and answer that question for a long time. While their scientists said they have not yet ...

It’s one of the most popular themes in science fiction—top secret government experts are ready to spring into action if a UFO appears. For example, in the novella-based 2016 film Arrival, the ...

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TL;DR: Researchers have determined the maximum distance at which aliens could detect Earth's signatures if they possessed technology equivalent to ours. A team of researchers set out to answer a ...

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