Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

A new line of research proposes that the first clear signs of extraterrestrial intelligence may not come from distant stars, ...

In 1960, Freeman Dyson proposed how advanced civilizations could create megastructures that enclosed their system, allowing them to harness all of their star's energy and multiplying the habitable ...

Some day in the far future, it’s possible our descendants will kick it up a notch and wrap the entire Sun in a massive solar-collecting shell known as a Dyson Sphere. It’s also possible that some ...

For generations, science fiction has trained us to imagine the future as humanity spreading across endless new planets. But ...

A story that went viral this week reports that astronomers finally found E.T., but those aren't the facts. CNET's Eric Mack talks with the astronomers involved about what is still a very interesting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. When it comes to the hunt for extraterrestrial life, perhaps the ...

During excavations near Stăuceni in the Botoșani district in northeast Romania, archaeologists from FAU discovered a megastructure built by the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture. Covering approximately 350 ...