intelligent life
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How Aliens We’ve Never Met Could Help Humanity Escape Self-Destruction
Image: ESA Humans have had such a dramatic impact on Earth that some scientists say we’ve kickstarted a new geological era known as the Anthropocene. A fascinating new paper theorises that alien civilizations could do the same thing, reshaping their homeworlds in predictable and potentially detectable ways. The authors are proposing a new classification scheme…
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Alien Life May Be Hiding In These Brilliant Star Clusters
For three decades, humans have searched for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth, and yet we’ve only sampled a tiny drop of our vast cosmic ocean. If we’re ever to find a radio-hot, spacefaring civilisation, we need to know where to point our telescopes.