If E.T. has been trying to phone us since returning home, he can stop. After four years of scanning the skies for radio signals that might be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, the Allen ...

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal examines how the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has devised a new method, which the researchers refer to as the scintillation ...

In a quest to unravel the mysteries of our galaxy, a team led by Akshay Suresh, a doctoral candidate in astronomy at Cornell University, has embarked on a groundbreaking initiative called the ...

In practice, the universe is full of surprises, and so is Earth’s own technology. What has repeatedly unsettled researchers is not random static but signals that look almost too ideal: razor-thin in ...

For more than half a century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been built ...

Japan’s first SETI group plans radio observations near Sagittarius next August, aiming to decode the 1977 signal.

For the past century, we’ve inadvertently broadcast our presence to an estimated 75 nearby star systems. About a quarter of those stars have confirmed exoplanets orbiting in the habitable zone. A few ...