When politicians start talking about hybrids, demons, Roswell and secret files, even sensible people begin to look up a ...

Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us? Theoretical ...

These findings suggest that the absence of past detections does not mean discovery is imminent. If extraterrestrial ...

That Alien, Sound will find its champions (and it should), but for all its imagination, the film needs restraint, not an expanded run-time to capture its deepest potential.

A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before they reach us.

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...

For decades, humanity has scoured the cosmos for any signs that we aren't alone in the universe. NASA spacecraft like the twin Voyager probes – launched in the 1970s bearing the iconic Golden Record – ...

Scientists hunting for radio signals from any form of advanced extraterrestrial life that might be out there trying to contact us are now starting to wonder if something has been messing with their ...

Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers a listener question about the natural world. This week's question comes from Zach in Minneapolis, MN. "I’ve read that constant sound from highways can ...