"I really wanna see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space. Just going like 'shoom, shoom,' just one after the other." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes it seems like we got to the galactic party late and everyone has already gone home. Our species only figured out how to ...

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 ...

In the wake of xAI losing two of its co-founders and other prominent employees, Elon Musk held an all-hands meeting at his ...

Many have speculated that humanity’s rapid rise in intelligence and culture might not have been entirely natural. The uplift ...

Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

In his classic science fiction novel Contact, Carl Sagan remarked, “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” Physicist Enrico Fermi is credited with ...

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

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 ...

Remember when I warned everyone that humans would probably destroy all life in the universe like construction workers killing ant colonies to make way for a never-ending series of cosmic strip malls?

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...