Researchers from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) may have figured out why we have not detected any alien ...

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

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

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

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

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

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 ...

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

Could the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS exhibit technosignatures, or signals of alien technology? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as a team of ...

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...

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 ...