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 ...

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, according to a new study that could lead to new approaches in finding ...

The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...

Signal Station is a tense, tactile sci-fi thriller where you are the operator of a remote listening station who intercepts the first confirmed alien signal.

The idea that our first confirmed alien signal might be a civilization’s final broadcast is rooted less in pessimism than in probability. If technological societies are fragile, then the cosmos could ...