Humans have wondered for centuries whether we are alone in the universe — and a new study suggests that if alien ...

These findings suggest that the absence of past detections does not mean discovery is imminent. If extraterrestrial ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is arguing that our inaugural contact is more likely to be a distress call, the ...

The history of astronomical discovery shows that many of the most detectable phenomena, especially detection firsts, are not ...

If advanced aliens lived on a planet within a few hundred to a thousand light years away from Earth, then vast numbers of their signals must already have crossed Earth without being noticed, a new ...

A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before ...

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 ...

In March 2026, SETI Institute researchers contributed to a wide range of conversations about our solar system and the search ...

On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, received the most powerful signal it would ever detect during its decades of observations. The signal lasted just 72 seconds, but ...

We may have been missing signals from intelligent aliens because of solar wind. Researchers from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute say this means we have been watching for ...

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