In an exclusive interview with Starlust, astronomer Vishal Gajjar of the SETI Institute discusses how stars may be ...

ourselves to the Milky Way galaxy, which is the galaxy that contains the solar system, it is said that there are 40 billion planets located in the habitable zone where life is likely to be born. Given ...

golden record that can decipher data with hints of mathematics and chemistry. It is hoped that it will become a kind of common language between the unknown extraterrestrial civilizations. A novel ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is arguing that our inaugural contact is more likely to be a distress call, the ...

When people imagine first contact with aliens, they often picture giant ships in the sky or wise beings sending peaceful messages. A new scientific idea suggests something very different. According to ...

Astronomer Dr. David Kipping argued that we're more likely to meet a "unusually loud" extraterrestrials whose empire is on the decline. When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...