The late Professor Stephen Hawking had a chilling "dark forest" theory about alien life 15 years ago – and it could be more plausible than ever. Earlier this year his predictions about aliens ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on the arXiv preprint server introduces a compelling idea about how we might ...

Imagine a super-advanced alien civilization that needs insane amounts of energy way beyond our puny solar panels and wind ...

Black holes can release enormous energy through hot disks, surrounding plasma and powerful jets, enough to support a ...

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 ...

Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has so far primarily meant focusing on one particular type of signal—and that ...

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 ...

Astronomers may have been listening for alien civilizations in only a small slice of the radio spectrum while overlooking a largely unexplored range of higher frequencies. Using archived data from the ...

For decades, radio SETI searches have focused on one important question: if another technological civilization is trying to contact us, how would they send that message? For Dr. Zuckerman, the ...

Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when astronomers began to pick up mysterious, unknown radio sources in the cosmos. Soviet ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Nov 17, 2025, 05:21am EST Nov 28, 2025, 12:25am EST A team ...

In 1961, Dr Frank Drake proposed a probabilistic, though highly speculative, equation to determine the number of intelligent ...