Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Interstellar space is unforgivingly vast, but the emptiness has some advantages. The lack of atmosphere means there is no aerodynamic drag. So when the ship reaches its cruise spe ...

Radio astronomer Emma Chapman explains why the radio view of the universe is so crucial to space exploration, astronomy, and ...

If Earth is inside a galactic zoo, the silence of space may not be natural. It may be managed. The video argues that hidden ...

The CIA has been accused of attempting to use DNA submitted to 23andMe and Ancestry.com to aid in their hunt for aliens on ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

Steven Spielberg has decided he should be the one to represent humanity if we ever make contact with alien life. The director ...

A new analysis of NASA's Deep Space Network finds Earth's strongest radio beams align with planetary line‑ups, boosting the chance alien civilisations could detect us and suggesting where and when we ...

Spielberg, known for popular extraterrestrial films, put his name in the ring for the hypothetical alien ambassador role ...

The competition for this job is out of this world.

On Earth, a cloudy morning giving way to a clear evening is unremarkable, the kind of forecast that barely warrants a glance ...

A well-known conspiracy theory (also seen in The X-Files) attests that aliens are in communication with the U.S. government, ...