A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

SETI may have missed alien signals for 60 years because stellar plasma smears transmissions into noise, a new Astrophysical ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have begun a first-of-its-kind search for signs ...

"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 ...

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In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...