For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has focused on subtle whispers in the cosmic noise, the faint, ...

Imagine looking up into the night sky, knowing that someone could be looking back at you. It’s a really exciting and kind of creepy notion.How would we know? What if other alien civilizations could ...

There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive ...

Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a frequently floated belief that ...

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 ...