Scientists say the findings of the new study may make future searches for extraterrestrial intelligence faster and more ...

Researchers from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) may have figured out why we have not detected any alien signals as of yet, and it could partly explain the infamous "Fermi paradox" ...

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

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

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 ...

Chilling Reasons We Haven’t Made Contact With Aliens Yet For decades, the idea of making contact with extraterrestrial life ...

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio signal that appeared to originate from beyond the Milky Way. This happened when ...

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

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 ...

With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy—with every new advanced telescope, we ...

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 ...