Humans have created countless inventions that shape our lives in amazing ways. Some are practical, some are revolutionary, and some are simply fascinating. But if aliens suddenly appeared, which ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new paper suggests that alien civilizations may communicate in ways that we do not currently ...

Elon Musk has turned a long-running joke about being an extraterrestrial into a central part of his public persona, even as ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Dyson swarms—theoretical arrangements of satellites orbiting a star to harness its energy—may seem like they could be eternal once constructed, but they are still at the mercy of gravity. A new ...

Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

What new methods can be used to detect alien technosignatures? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from Pennsylvania ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ones, and did not wish to die themselves, they invented an afterlife.