SETI researchers may have missed alien signals due to a cosmic phenomenon that distorts narrowband radio waves, new research says.

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the ...

What's up with those machines?

“The universe is not as quiet as we were told.” The line belongs to a dramatic retelling of a disputed signal claim, but it captures a sober scientific problem: the first technosignature humanity ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

Former President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us," after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend. During a ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Former U.S. President Barack Obama has clarified ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Resident Alien ended its four-season run, relatively on its own terms, in August 2025. However, before Alan Tudyk's sci-fi dramedy came to a close, the finale snuck in an obvious attempt to manifest a ...

Sequelitis is a serious problem in the world of cinema. When a masterpiece is made, the executives are eager to capture that lightning in a bottle a second time. That leads to sequels that must be ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...