A greedy galaxy that existed less than 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang is hoarding supermassive black holes.

Earth’s neighbor still has secrets that science is trying to figure out, and one of them is potential signs of life.

Throughout July 2026, SETI Institute scientists, leaders, and collaborators contributed to conversations spanning the origins of life, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Mars exploration, ...

Given the size and age of the universe, it should be full of species with technology far more advanced than our own. But so far there is no trace ...

ABSTRACT: Direct detection of dark matter (DM) particles has been achieved by the DAMA collaboration and was confirmed by measuring the annual modulation of the measured signal. Analysis of their ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a “lunar biocontainment facility.” Reading time 3 minutes International ...

It’s been a week since Disclosure Day’s release, and the nation’s biggest believers in extraterrestrial life are all abuzz. Steven Spielberg’s latest film—which stars Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor as ...

It didn’t take long for stories about extraterrestrials to reach our cinemas. George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon” introduced weird, easily explodable aliens called Selenites that capture the first ...