From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Des physiciens ont peut-être enfin trouvé la réponse à l’absence de signes de vie extraterrestre. Au vu de l’étendue de l’univers, nous aurions déjà dû avoir des traces. Selon ces chercheurs, les ...

Si l’humain cherche à entrer en communication avec une potentielle civilisation alien, ces derniers le peuvent également. Une équipe d’astronome a théorisé comment ces derniers pourraient entrer en ...

Advanced alien civilisations could already be talking to each other across space using a "firefly" technique, it has been claimed. Scientists believe aliens could be communicating with flashing lights ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial civilisations. People around the world have wished for the day we discover an ...

New research could offer an answer to the ‘Fermi paradox’ - the question of why we have never heard anything from alien civilisations. A researcher has calculated the technology required for alien ...

RATHER than searching for aliens phoning home, scientists are looking for signs of the homes themselves. A new project proposing that galaxy-spanning alien civilisations should generate detectable ...