Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research is pushing astronomers to look instead at the loudest neighborhoods in the ...

Since the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960, scientists have been scanning the Milky ...

If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp ...

Astronomers used the VLA and MeerKAT radio telescopes to search the Hycean exoplanet K2-18b for alien technosignatures, analyzing millions of signals but finding no confirmed artificial radio transmis ...

Alien civilizations could eavesdrop on our communications with our spacecraft and rovers, according to a new study – and we might be able to find them the same way. To tell a Mars rover to turn left ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

For more than 60 years, scientists have been scanning the skies for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. Using powerful telescopes, they have searched for unusual radio signals, brief laser flashes ...

A mysterious radio signal has been traced to a galaxy far, far away. And, it's causing a stir among astronomers -- although nobody is sure what it is. Research published this week in the journal ...

A recent study investigates whether undetected alien signals have already traversed Earth, highlighting the limitations of our detection technology.

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of ...