Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations so advanced they seem like gods, with powers that look supernatural to anyone beneath them. But this episode asks a darker and more fascinating ...

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly ...

A photo of a three-sided Martian "pyramid" has sparked discussions on potential advanced life on the Red Planet. Evidence of alien life or cosmic pyramid scheme? A documentary filmmaker sparked a ...

Space contains objects far more extreme than our Sun, including neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, white dwarfs, and black ...

After searching 100,000 galaxies for signs of highly advanced extraterrestrial life, a team of scientists using observations from NASA's WISE orbiting observatory has found no evidence of advanced ...

The discovery of a mysterious interstellar object called "3I/ATLAS" and its transit through our solar system has set off all kinds of speculation about whether the fairly massive visitor could be some ...