Johnston is in the midst of scaling up Starcloud, working through technical issues, and raising hundreds of millions of ...

“There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember.” That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...

Imagine a super-advanced alien civilization that needs insane amounts of energy way beyond our puny solar panels and wind turbines to power their mega-cities, AI overlords, or whatever interstellar ...

An awe-inspiring and comprehensive exploration into the grand scientific quest for extraterrestrial intelligence, examining ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

For decades, SETI researchers have focused on finding narrow-band radio signals that might stand out from the natural universe. But what if an advanced civilization that wanted to communicate would ...

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Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...