Researchers from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) may have figured out why we have not detected any alien ...

The odds of there being another intelligent life form in the Milky Way are pretty good given the billions of stars. But we ...

K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life, so astronomers conducted an unusually ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

Alien hunters update guidance on sharing news of possible intelligent life. Scientists searching for intelligent life beyond Earth have updated their guidance on how the world should be told if a ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research ...

On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, received the most powerful signal it would ever detect during its decades of observations. The signal lasted just 72 seconds, but ...

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...