The search for intelligent life in our galaxy is shifting from abstract speculation to detailed cartography, as researchers try to sketch where alien societies might arise, thrive and vanish inside ...

Aerospace engineer Joseph Shoer whipped up this cool map of a galactic civilization in his spare time, when he wasn’t researching designs for real-life spacecraft. Not only is this galaxy thoroughly ...

Researchers found seven stars in our galaxy that might host alien megastructures called Dyson spheres. But these stars' strange behavior could also be explained by other phenomena, like clouds of dust ...

The Breakthrough Listen project has made several attempts to find evidence of alien civilizations through radio astronomy. Its latest effort focuses attention on the center of our galaxy. The idea ...

Colonizing the Milky Way is an unfathomable task for us mere Earthlings, but for an extraterrestrial civilization capable of hopping from one star system to the next, it’s shockingly doable. In the ...

Most of the alien civilizations that ever dotted our galaxy have probably killed themselves off already. That's the takeaway of a new study, published Dec. 14 to the arXiv database, which used modern ...

Key chemical found at the edge of galaxy suggests alien life is common By Michael Irving December 04, 2023 An artist's impression of the Milky Way galaxy, which a new study has found could be more ...