And that without the capacity to tolerate life's partial or total meaninglessness, we become perilously susceptible to ...

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

A common axiom in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is that if we do detect technologically advanced aliens ...

Robert Smith is convinced the aliens have won. "The invasion has happened—it's all over," says the University of Alberta ...

Only a small fraction of our galaxy has been studied and the question of whether aliens exist is something scientists have been trying to understand, explore and figure out for a long time.

Sustainability may be an unavoidable feature of advanced civilizations, making advanced technology “indistinguishable from nature.” ...

When we turn to “complex” extraterrestrial life or “intelligent” aliens, our results were 67.4% agreement, and 58.2% agreement, respectively for astrobiologists and other scientists. So, scientists ...

We’ve still not found aliens, even though a majority of the scientific community, as well as the general public, believe they exist. Mind you, radio waves from the cosmos are commonplace, ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start. “That’s the ...

The problem facing SETI scientists is that, based on observations so far, F probably is not near 1; otherwise, we would have noticed by now that we are not alone, assuming that intelligent aliens ...

Are we alone? Intelligent aliens may be rare, new study suggests : Read moreOh, the good ol' Drake Equation--one of the least useful predictive formulae that exist.