Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial life.

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

For over two decades (between 1999 and 2020), a crowdsourced computing effort involving personal computers aimed to find extraterrestrial intelligence (ET). For this project, millions of volunteers ...

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...

Astronomers have been scanning the skies for alien radio signals for decades, but so far they’ve heard nary a peep (with one possible exception). But according to a recent study, that could be because ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of interest using the world's largest radio telescope.

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could they hear us? A new study combining data from Penn State and NASA’s Jet ...