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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new paper suggests that alien civilizations may communicate in ways that we do not currently ...

The quest to find extraterrestrial life is an unending pursuit of science, and one aspect of this search revolves around technosignatures. Detectable from as far as 40 light-years away, Earth’s ...

If fusion energy is a must-have for advanced civilizations, evidence of its use could help us find aliens. A new study led by the University of Washington analyzes how deuterium-deuterium (DD) fusion ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have begun a first-of-its-kind search for signs ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

To find advanced civilizations, you don’t need to go hunting for megastructures or hypothetical space probes. You could find civilizations just a few centuries ahead of us by looking for a key element ...

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