The search for intelligent alien life goes far beyond listening for simple radio signals. This documentary explores how ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House scientific advisory council on UFOs.

A polarizing Harvard astronomer has been appointed to lead a Trump administration panel studying UFOs. Avi Loeb is leading a ...

Chilling Reasons We Haven’t Made Contact With Aliens Yet For decades, the idea of making contact with extraterrestrial life ...

Last year, an interstellar traveler entered our solar system. Some speculated that it was an alien spacecraft, but it turned ...

Scientists explore the Fermi paradox, suggesting that alien civilisations may self-destruct before becoming detectable, ...

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio signal that appeared to originate from beyond the Milky Way. This happened when ...

Alas, it’s not a study-abroad course – yet – but exoplanets may provide insight into how life formed on Earth.

With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy—with every new advanced telescope, we ...