Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most ...

The Extraterrestrial Highway in south central Nevada runs through one of the darkest and most desolate stretches of the ...

The search for extraterrestrials focuses on signals like the ones we produce ourselves. Thanks to AI, these might only last ...

Breakthrough Listen will scan the the skies with the aid of the MeerKAT Telescope. They are targeting a million nearby stars.

The Search For Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is evolving. We've moved on from the limited thinking of monitoring ...

With the recent discovery of traces of what may or may not be or have been life on Mars, eyes are turning to another world in ...

Lacki’s study, “Artificial Broadcasts as Galactic Populations,” has been posted to the preprint science journal arXiv. In it, he argues radio-bright galaxies may be bursting at the seams with advanced ...

The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect. We could ...

Previous research suggests that brown dwarfs should contain phosphine—which forms when phosphorus combines with ...

Humans are finally building the technology that could tell us where to look, when to look, and what signs to watch for. What might we find? Why does it matter?

In her new book "First Contact," journalist Becky Ferreira explores the scientific search for alien life, our cultural ...