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 ...

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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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. It might be evidence of aliens building gigantic structures around ...

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 ...

KIC 8462852, the strangest star in the galaxy, dims and brightens in a way that could be explained by an advanced civilization. But the star's namesake has nixed that idea. Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. When it comes to the hunt for extraterrestrial life, perhaps the ...

For the last two years, astronomers all over the world have been eagerly observing what is hailed as “the most mysterious star in the Universe,” a stellar object that wildly fluctuates in brightness ...

Archaeologists have unearthed four enigmatic stone megastructures in the Adriatic Hinterland of Europe, shedding light on the continent’s earliest large-scale prehistoric hunting system. These ...