How would we recognize a message from an alien civilization if we cannot understand its language? By combining information theory, Zipf’s Law, and studies of human and dolphin communication, ...

There are things the NASA chief has "come across in the job that he can’t explain," but aliens are not among them.

As people celebrate Pi Day this March 14, the mathematical constant continues to be part of everyday life for scientists and ...

Dr. Andreas Schwarz Head of Risk, Science, and Crisis Communication Research Group (iRisCS-Com), Technische Universität Ilmenau +49 3677 69-4694 andreas.schwarz@tu-ilmenau.de “Decadal Astrobiology Re ...

A team of scientists have been finding out if space weather could be making it harder for us to talk to aliens. Find out more here.

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of the United States. In a recent interview, Barack Obama became the first ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

Representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, pi is approximately equal to 3.14159 — but its digits go on forever. In school, you might have used it to calculate the area of a ...

Math lovers and pie fans unite on March 14 to celebrate Pi, the infinite constant driving everything from space exploration ...