A new study has taken a look at how plausible the idea of "Dyson swarms" is, how long they could feasibly be maintained by an advanced civilization, and whether it would be possible for us to detect ...

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 ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is arguing that our inaugural contact is more likely to be a distress call, the ...