It may take less than 1,000 years for an advanced alien civilization to destroy its own planet with climate change, even if it relies solely on renewable energy, a new model suggests. When ...

The rise of AI might explain why the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect the signatures of advanced technical civilizations elsewhere in the galaxy. When you purchase ...

In the vastMilky Way, billions of planets may harbor life, but new research presented at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting suggests that alien civilizations capable of communication are likely rare. Led ...

A new study has proposed the latest in a long line of bleak solutions to why we haven't yet found signs of intelligent life out there in the universe. The universe is a big place. With 200 billion ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have begun a first-of-its-kind search for signs ...

Given the age and size of the Milky Way, there should be intelligent civilizations all over the place. But where is everybody? A new study suggests that alien civilizations could be too advanced for ...

You've been magically transported to a room and given three choices. Choice 1: You can know the details of three different alien civilizations. These are civilizations that have (or had) reached at ...

Hunting for alien civilizations isn't a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it's the business of combing through enormous volumes of data to look for peculiar signals. When you purchase ...

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 ...

My college laptop was slow. It didn't help that the internet was too. Neither fact distracted me from two crucial tasks: downloading music and searching for aliens. The former was a study in ...

James has been gaming for as long as he can remember, from conquering the world in Civilization or blowing up worlds in Stellaris to getting sucked into yet another grind on either version of ...

You can know the details of three different alien civilizations. These are civilizations that have (or had) reached at least the level of modern day humans (and there is a guarantee that there ...