Johnston is in the midst of scaling up Starcloud, working through technical issues, and raising hundreds of millions of dollars. So he’s pretty busy. But Johnston also wants to send a mission to the ...

The Fermi paradox asks a simple question with no easy answer: if the galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, many with planets, why has no other civilization made contact? One line of research ...

Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the most promising hints yet of life on a distant planet. But given the age and ...

Seattle-area nonprofit group kicks off a campaign to raise $15 million and solicit bids for a milestone interstellar mission.

Zach Cregger's The Flood casts Jennifer Lawrence as the lead of a deep-space sci-fi thriller produced by Steven Spielberg. The film's premise -- a crew encountering an alien artifact that warps time ...

Join us LIVE Monday, November 11, to hear planetary scientist Alan Stern – leader of the mighty New Horizons mission to Pluto and the outer solar system – discuss the Fermi Paradox. The livestream ...

A pair of researchers, one with the Carnegie Institution for Science, the other with California Institute of Technology, has developed a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox. In their paper ...

"None of us will be here when this journey ends, and that is the point." Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the summer of 1950, four men sat down for lunch together at Los Alamos. It was, at the time, the center of American physics, ...

“Where is everybody?”: This question, about the lack of aliens in the vast universe, is called Fermi’s paradox – Copyright NASA/AFP/File HO Astronomers raised ...