ourselves to the Milky Way galaxy, which is the galaxy that contains the solar system, it is said that there are 40 billion planets located in the habitable zone where life is likely to be born. Given ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

The idea that our first confirmed alien signal might be a civilization’s final broadcast is rooted less in pessimism than in probability. If technological societies are fragile, then the cosmos could ...

golden record that can decipher data with hints of mathematics and chemistry. It is hoped that it will become a kind of common language between the unknown extraterrestrial civilizations. A novel ...

When people imagine first contact with aliens, they often picture giant ships in the sky or wise beings sending peaceful messages. A new scientific idea suggests something very different. According to ...