The latest finding from NASA's planet-hunting space telescope, Kepler, has scientists talking -- and they're stumped. "We've ruled out the usual suspects and are scratching our heads and can't figure ...

A team of more than 200 researchers, including Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Assistant Professor Jason Wright and led by Louisiana State University’s Tabetha Boyajian, is one ...

On Episode 151 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with former NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green about how we can search for technosignatures that might indicate advanced civilizations ...

A recent study reveals that certain configurations of artificial spheres and rings around binary stars could be stable. The work of Colin McInnes, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

A European Space Agency catalog of the Milky Way's billions of stars could be hiding evidence of highly advanced alien civilizations with serious building skills. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor ...

The truth is out there — or at least that’s what researchers at NASA and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute are hoping. While much of the SETI Institute’s research involves ...

Some astronomers believe they may have found alien "megastructures" around a distant star. (The Associated Press) Astronomers have been staring at it for more than four years. They don't know what it ...

Last year, a single star found fame. It consistently made headlines and even appeared on "Saturday Night Live" and "The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert." The star (often referred to as Tabby’s ...

How do you power a super advanced alien civilization? Soak up a star. We harness the power of the sun using solar panels. What if you were to scale this idea to astronomical proportions? Surround an ...

Take a look at the reveal trailer for Starvester, a short incremental game about expanding a star-system-wide factory to ...