This is the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in the Chilean Andes. Here, it’s observing the sky on a night when the moon (not pictured) brightens the darkness. Now, ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing so rapidly that it may soon move beyond human understanding, said former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "An alien intelligence is coming," he said at the Sifted Summit ...

When I was a child, I thought aliens communicated via telepathy.Of course, I must have learned that from someone. Whether it was from a tokusatsu show on TV, a science magazine for boys, or a book ...

Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has so far primarily meant focusing on one particular type of signal—and that signal has normally been based on our own current cutting-edge technology. But ...

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A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

We’ve been searching for aliens for a very long time, looking up at the sky for some sign that we're not alone. In more modern times, we’ve wondered whether an intelligence from somewhere else would ...

For as long as we’ve been exploring space, the search for alien intelligence has followed a familiar script. We point antennas at the sky. We listen for radio signals. We scan for massive structures ...

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SETI, the search for intelligent life beyond Earth, is having a bit of a moment. New techniques – including the ability to do what’s called commensal observing, monitoring for signals when telescopes ...