A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

We might find alien life as soon as 2030, suggests a new study. A lab experiment has shown instruments on a spacecraft headed to one of the most promising worlds to find life are sensitive enough to ...

A collaborative project dubbed “A Sign in Space” is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for simulating a message to Earth from intelligent aliens. The project involved beaming an encoded message ...

A recent paper published by Harvard and Montana Technological University which speculates that an unidentified, technologically advanced population could possibly be living secretly among humans on ...

Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing themselves — and its key ingredient is a common amino acid that’s found in ...

Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...