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 ...

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

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.

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

SETI may have missed alien signals for 60 years because stellar plasma smears transmissions into noise, a new Astrophysical Journal study finds.

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 ...

A comet from another star system does not arrive every year. That is part of what made 3I/ATLAS so compelling when it appeared in July 2025.

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

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 ...