Advanced Civilizations Will Overheat Their Planets Within 1,000 Years
Earth’s average global temperatures have been steadily increasing since the Industrial Revolution. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), Earth has been heating up at a rate...
View ArticleThose Aren't Dyson Spheres, They're HotDOGs
If there really are advanced alien civilizations out there, you’d think they’d be easy to find. A truly powerful alien race would stride like gods among the cosmos, creating star-sized or galaxy-sized...
View ArticleRemember that “Alien Signal” Sent by the ExoMars Orbiter Last Year? It’s Just...
In May 2023, the ESA’s Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), currently in orbit around Mars, sent a signal to Earth to simulate a possible extraterrestrial transmission. As part of the multidisciplinary...
View ArticleNew Study Examines How Extraterrestrial Civilizations Could Become...
One of the most challenging aspects of astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is anticipating what life and extraterrestrial civilizations will look like. Invariably, we...
View ArticleNew Study Examines Cosmic Expansion, Leading to a New Drake Equation
In 1960, in preparation for the first SETI conference, Cornell astronomer Frank Drake formulated an equation to calculate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in our Milky Way....
View ArticleA New Study Suggests How we Could Find Advanced Civilizations that Ran Out of...
When it comes to our modern society and the many crises we face, there is little doubt that fusion power is the way of the future. The technology not only offers abundant power that could solve the...
View ArticleWe Could Search for Aliens Harvesting Energy from their Pet Black Hole
Of all the unanswered questions in modern science, perhaps the most talked about is whether we are alone in the Universe. A new paper looks at another way we might be able to detect advanced...
View ArticleSETI Researchers Double-Checked 1 Million Objects for Signs of Alien Signals
We can’t help ourselves but wonder about life elsewhere in the Universe. Any hint of a biosignature or even a faint, technosignature-like event wrests our attention away from our tumultuous daily...
View ArticleWhat’s That Smell? It’s Sulfur – A New Tool For Finding Alien Life
Astronomers have identified sulfur as a potentially crucial indicator in narrowing the search for life on other planets. While sulfur itself is not necessarily an indication of habitability,...
View ArticleIf You’re Going to Call Aliens, Use This Number
Let’s dive into one of those cosmic curiosities that’s bound to blow your mind: how we might chat with aliens. And no, I’m not talking about elaborate coded messages or flashy signals. We’re talking...
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