The Great Void, a vast empty region 300 million light years wide, contains far fewer galaxies than expected. Some scientists ...

If humans survive, they may become a galaxy-spanning Type 3 civilization, with colonists evolving into distinct species ...

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A new video from the science-focused YouTube channel Kurzgesagt breaks down the different stages of advancement that an alien civilization could theoretically undergo. And each one of the broadly ...

It has been more than sixty years since Dr. Frank Drake (father of the Drake Equation) and his colleagues mounted the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) survey. This was known as ...

Humans love to put labels on pretty much everything — even stuff we know nothing about, like undiscovered alien civilizations. Over 50 years ago, a Soviet astrophysicist invented a power ranking for ...

Neuropsychologists say existing knowledge is limited in studying the possibility of alien life forms and civilizations. The mystery of dark matter and dark energy are the limits. In the study of the ...

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