When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Scientists claim that first extraterrestrial contact will be a loud event impossible to ignore, not a subtle signal.

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

For over two decades, millions of personal computers around the world have joined forces to scan radio signals from the ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...