A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is ...

Steward Observatory’s long running Public Lecture series aims to make the complex field of Astronomy accessible to everyone.

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

Across the observable universe, galaxies advertise themselves in radio waves for familiar reasons-magnetic fields, cosmic ...

With the countdown to Baba Vanga’s 2025 alien prediction, astronomer David Kipping proposes a controversial theory about the nature of first contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. What if we ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

An astrophotograph of the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS highlights its green coma and a wandering blue-tinted ion tail. (Copyright Victor Sabet and Julien De ...