A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who built a lucrative career on his argument, rubbished by scientists and ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations ...

Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Däniken, who built a lucrative career on his argument, rubbished by scientists and archaeologists, that humanity owes much of its development to the intervention of ...

Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research ...

Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, climate philosopher, and author, most recently, of “Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress.” He teaches at the University of Notre ...

Advanced alien civilizations might not be whispering across the cosmos with radio waves at all, but instead flickering like ...

We tend to over-expect technological change and underestimate its second-order effects. The real story of the next ...

Only a small fraction of the observable universe is comprised of visible matter. Current data suggests all galaxies are ...

TMTPOST -- Artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps, is simply energy that has found self-awareness, not as a competition over algorithms or computing chips, but as a civilizational transition driven by ...