SETI@home has been one of the largest citizen science projects ever, with millions of users around the world.

On Sept. 19, 1959, the paper "Searching for Interstellar Communications" was published. Printed in the respected scientific ...

Astronomers have identified 45 Earth-like worlds that could be among the most promising places to search for biosignatures—chemical signs of life in distant atmospheres. Inspired by the idea of a real ...

New study outlines the first quantitative framework for searching lunar regolith for microscopic technosignatures.

Stellar plasma near M-dwarf stars may have hidden alien transmissions by smearing narrowband signals past SETI’s detection limits for decades I reincarnated in Charleston, SC and currently live in Los ...

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The recent, widely covered signal that's allegedly got SETI hot and bothered is almost certainly not aliens. But that doesn't mean it's not cool. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a data scale problem. There are just too many places to look for an interstellar signal, and even if you're looking in the right place you could ...

Staring into the starry night sky convinces many of us that we can’t be alone in this universe. So far, astronomers have been looking for alien signals in a specific part of the radio spectrum, which ...

Scientists hunting for radio signals from any form of advanced extraterrestrial life that might be out there trying to contact us are now starting to wonder if something has been messing with their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Enrico Fermi famously asked "Where is everybody?" back in 1950. This research offers a disarmingly simple partial answer: alien ...