“I have no clue if there are aliens out there,” concedes Douglas Vakoch, director of METI International, an organization committed to contacting extraterrestrial intelligence. But he is certain that ...

Symbols that can’t be understood have always captivated human imagination, especially when they tell a story. Some games lean into this captivation by asking players to decipher alien imagination, ...

Long before Artemis II captured our attention by taking humans farther from Earth than ever before, humans have been fascinated by the possibility of exploring other worlds, finding life on other ...