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

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3I/ATLAS is back in the conspiracy web, and whether you are a space enthusiast or a curious reader, the recent viral news ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb argues 3I/ATLAS shows signs of alien technology, from its 0.2% probability flight path to bizarre metal ...

Audio from a recent live air traffic control broadcast in Rhode Island has gone viral. During the conversation, an air traffic controller tells a pilot, ...

Spielberg is the director of Disclosure Day, marking his return to the alien genre since his 2005 film War of the Worlds. Though space and all its unknowns have been a common theme in the filmmaker's ...

The video breaks down the iconic opening of Contact and explains why the film’s central idea—that aliens can hear our radio broadcasts—is almost entirely wrong. Our radio waves have only traveled ...

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 ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens. Reading time 6 minutes At Gizmodo, we love a good story about ...

Assuming our solar system’s newest interstellar object isn’t an alien mothership sent here to menace us, humankind still hasn’t spotted any signs of extraterrestrial life, let alone intelligence — ...