For the first time in more than 15 years, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Search for Extraterrestrial ...
Scientists updated first contact protocols for 2026, requiring multiple verification steps and UN consultation before announcing alien discoveries or sending replies.
In the endless search for technosignatures—signs from some technologically advanced intelligent alien civilization—we've done everything from monitoring radio arrays to hypothesizing about whether ...
Planet Earth could be giving out its own signals, which could in turn be detected by distant astronomers on an alien planet ...
Astronomers who detect a credible signal from aliens after 2026 will be barred from announcing it publicly or sending any kind of reply until it has been painstakingly verified and reviewed through ...
So far astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets—worlds that orbit stars other than our sun. If that number already feels ridiculously large, you’d better brace yourself: extrapolation of ...