A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 'signals of interest' with the world's largest radio telescope. When you purchase through links on ...

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 ...

Astronomers from Cardiff University, UK, have employed the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) to explore the nearby Andromeda galaxy. Results of the observational ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

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 ...

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. ...

On November 22, Titan will transit Saturn. The Silver Sliver Galaxy (NGC 891), an edge-on spiral measuring 13’ by 3’ and glowing at magnitude 9.9, is observable 3.5° east of Almach (Gamma Andromedae) ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The evidence is a stream of gas called the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a young star in a neighboring galaxy — including the first-ever detection of ...

The original Mass Effect trilogy is pretty cool. But know what’s really cool? Mass Effect: Andromeda. Tomatoes down, please! Of course, grass that’s 2.537 million light years away isn’t always greener ...

When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien ...