The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

When interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was scanned for alien technology, scientists ran the most sensitive search ever attempted.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research ...

Estimating the chance of getting a message from life beyond Earth, say within the next decade, isn’t easy. Even the best experts are reluctant to offer precise odds. “Anybody who gave you a figure ...

Scientists warn humanity that the first contact with an alien civilisation may be loud, chaotic and extreme, potentially ...

The SETI Institute continues to answer the age-old question: “Are We Alone?” From celebrating 40 years of groundbreaking research to exploring the potential of AI in extraterrestrial communication, ...

The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

What new methods can be used to detect alien technosignatures? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from Pennsylvania ...