The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...

The Deep Space Network (DSN) is just the sort of tool aliens could one-day detect, transmitting from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL What if the first signal ever detected from an alien lifeform wasn't a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turbulent star environments may broaden alien radio signals, making them harder for SETI to detect. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Radio ...

Research from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute has found that we may have missed transmissions from intelligent alien life for a very benign reason. SETI’s searches are ...

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 ...

A search for aliens communicating between planets in one of the most promising systems to look for life has come up empty. Discovered in 2017, TRAPPIST-1 is a system of seven Earth-sized planets ...