Given the age and size of the Milky Way, there should be intelligent civilizations all over the place. But where is everybody? A new study suggests that alien civilizations could be too advanced for ...

Are there advanced alien “supercivilizations” lurking in our galaxy? If there are, they may use massive megastructures, such as a “Dyson sphere,” to harvest solar energy directly from a star. As first ...

The hunt for aliens goes hand in hand with the hunt for habitable planets. Astronomers are on the hunt for exoplanets with atmospheric chemicals that could be a sign of an advanced civilization. These ...

Researchers are considering the fact that there might be already the presence of very developed aliens civilizations which are out of reach of the humans. This theory is based on an assumption. The ...

Throughout history, numerous ancient technologies have left researchers and historians pondering the true capabilities of early civilizations. Were they more advanced than we give them credit for? By ...

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In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...

Global temperature increases over the past thirty years, visualized. Credit: NOAA/NCEI Earth's average global temperatures have been steadily increasing since the Industrial Revolution. According to ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is regularly plagued by the fact that humanity has a very limited perspective on civilization and the nature of intelligence itself. When it comes ...

Hongying Chen is on a mission to find the most technologically advanced aliens out there. “Kardashev Type III civilization (K3) is a kind of very advanced civilization that is capable of fueling the ...

Researchers are finding no obvious signs of life after digging through thousands of galaxy images in search of advanced civilizations. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news ...