Researchers announced that we may be able to receive a radio signal reply from extraterrestrial life as early as 2029. There is a very low chance of this happening, but it is not impossible. The team ...

Coming to the Firehall this February, Tracey Power’s show captures the spirit of the Canadian folk revival of the ’60s. Fermi’s point was that such civilizations likely arose millions of years ago, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first few years of the 2020s have seen the debate over whether humanity is alone in the universe evolve from a far-fetched ...

Luis Calçada on Flickr Under the Milky Way Galaxy. BI Answers: How many planets in the universe have intelligent alien life? More important than finding life on another planet would be communicating ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on the arXiv preprint server introduces a compelling idea about how we might ...

The Milky Way as a laboratory for civilizations Any attempt to chart alien societies has to start with the structure of The Milky Way itself, a disk roughly 100,000 light years across with hundreds of ...

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 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is a dream of humanity, but advanced extraterrestrial civilizations do not necessarily communicate in the same way as humans. A paper published on ...

For more than 60 years, scientists have been scanning the skies for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. Using powerful telescopes, they have searched for unusual radio signals, brief laser flashes ...

The news from researchers in the U.K. that there could be more than 30 intelligent alien civilizations in our galaxy is music to the ears of a Winnipeg science writer and “weirdologist”. Astrophysics ...

In his classic science fiction novel Contact, Carl Sagan remarked, “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” Physicist Enrico Fermi is credited with ...