The US$100m (£70m) Breakthrough Listen Initiative, founded by the billionaire, technology and science investor Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, has identified a mysterious radio signal that seems to ...

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal examines how SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) campaigns could save computing time while improving accuracy of determining if a ...

The rules for one of humanity’s biggest possible discoveries just got a lot stricter, and a lot more aware of the world they now have to survive in. An international group of scientists has updated ...

For more than 60 years, scientists have been searching the cosmos for possible signs of radio transmission that would indicate the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). In that time, the ...

We can't help ourselves but wonder about life elsewhere in the universe. Any hint of a biosignature or even a faint, technosignature-like event wrests our attention away from our tumultuous daily ...

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.