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 ...

For more than half a century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been built ...

When you're looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you're looking for and to go about it ...

Astronomer Dr. David Kipping argued that we're more likely to meet a "unusually loud" extraterrestrials whose empire is on the decline. When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to ...

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 ...

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Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens. Reading time 6 minutes At Gizmodo, we love a good story about ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures? Reading time 3 minutes Assuming aliens do physics like us but are ...