For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...
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What if aliens are actually humans from the future?
What if you found out that you had a long-lost relative? And what if that long-lost relative was from a different planet in ...
The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...
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 ...
In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...
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Nihilistic aliens sounded like a civilization that gave up - until they became something worse
A nihilistic alien civilization sounds like one that would simply lose hope, abandon progress, and fade away. But this episode explores a darker possibility: what if a society that stops believing in ...
For decades, humans have scanned for signals of alien technology emanating through the galaxy. The search highlights the contradiction between the abundance of planets and stars that stretch across ...
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