What if humanity’s first unmistakable sign of alien technology is not a greeting, but a distress flare? That possibility sits at the center of a growing idea in technosignature research: the signals ...

“If history is any guide, then perhaps the first signatures of extraterrestrial intelligence will too be highly atypical, ‘loud’ examples of their broader class.” In that line from The Eschatian ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...