How would we recognize a message from an alien civilization if we cannot understand its language? By combining information theory, Zipf’s Law, and studies of human and dolphin communication, ...

The views from up in the trees showcase the beautiful southern Indiana landscape, with its rolling hills and forests creating ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

The probability is very high that there are no aliens within detection range of Earth Our radio and TV broadcasts would be detectable only out to about 50 light-years from Earth, unless the aliens ...

"I really wanna see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space. Just going like 'shoom, shoom,' just one after the other." Reading time 5 minutes At the risk of stating ...

Elon Musk had some bizarre things to say at a recent xAI meeting. Credit: Hakan Nural/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images And in an unusual move, xAI posted the entire 45-minute meeting online. The most ...

Elon Musk discussed his views on whether aliens exist during a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Newsweek reached out to Musk’s company SpaceX for additional comment via ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

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 ...

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 ...