The history of astronomical discovery shows that many of the most detectable phenomena, especially detection firsts, are not ...

Humans have wondered for centuries whether we are alone in the universe — and a new study suggests that if alien ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

If advanced aliens lived on a planet within a few hundred to a thousand light years away from Earth, then vast numbers of their signals must already have crossed Earth without being noticed, a new ...

One of the longest-standing techniques in humanity’s search for life beyond Earth may be causing scientists to miss alien signals entirely, a new study finds. Since the very beginnings of the search ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turbulent star environments may broaden alien radio signals, making them harder for SETI to detect. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Radio ...

A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before ...

What steps can be taken to identify why we haven’t received radio signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence, also called technosignatures? This is what a recent study published in The ...

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, according to a new study that could lead to new approaches in finding ...

For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The goal of ...

A new scientific framework suggests that even if signals or physical traces from alien civilizations reached Earth, detecting ...