Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research is pushing astronomers to look instead at the loudest neighborhoods in the ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp ...

Astronomers have been scanning the skies for alien radio signals for decades, but so far they’ve heard nary a peep (with one possible exception). But according to a recent study, that could be because ...

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

Scientists found new evidence (or lack thereof) disproving the conspiracy theory that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is alien ...

January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

What does it take to detect a radio signal sent by extraterrestrial life to Earth? Two decades of work involving radio telescopes stationed on opposite sides of the world, a supercomputer in Germany, ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...