It is no secret that humans are the dominant species on Earth. And with no confirmed evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, we often assume we are also the most advanced civilization ...

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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 ...

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly ...

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 ...

Advanced alien civilizations may communicate via a series of flashing lights, similar to how fireflies do, a new paper hints. This would potentially make extraterrestrials much harder to spot if we ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...