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“I have no clue if there are aliens out there,” concedes Douglas Vakoch, director of METI International, an organization committed to contacting extraterrestrial intelligence. But he is certain that ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

An extraterrestrial creature resembling a squid (cephalopod) changed its skin color and moved its tentacles, forming a ...

Long before Artemis II captured our attention by taking humans farther from Earth than ever before, humans have been fascinated by the possibility of exploring other worlds, finding life on other ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

Exoplanet atmospheric chemistry as a creative dataset Assembly theory, a framework describing life as a complex molecular organization beyond nonliving chemistry AI-human co-creation as a non-dominant ...

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had contemplated the existence of life beyond Earth. As our technology matured and we ...