Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures? Reading time 3 minutes Assuming aliens do physics like us but are ...

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets we've found so far—which in turn makes them interesting for astrobiological ...

One of the challenges of searching for technosignatures (i.e., signs that intelligent life somewhere in the universe has created technology) is understanding what to look for. Technology is a very ...

Astronomers have unknowingly listened in on more than 6.1 million stars during previous searches for alien signals, according to research presented by University of Manchester PhD student Louisa Mason ...