The search for intelligent life in our galaxy is shifting from abstract speculation to detailed cartography, as researchers try to sketch where alien societies might arise, thrive and vanish inside ...

Aerospace engineer Joseph Shoer whipped up this cool map of a galactic civilization in his spare time, when he wasn’t researching designs for real-life spacecraft. Not only is this galaxy thoroughly ...

The Breakthrough Listen project has made several attempts to find evidence of alien civilizations through radio astronomy. Its latest effort focuses attention on the center of our galaxy. The idea ...

A new study calculates the number of intelligent alien civilizations likely to exist in the Milky Way. The scientists believe there are roughly 36 intelligent civilizations in our galaxy. The average ...