For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has largely operated on the assumption ...

Scientists have long listened for alien radio signals. Universe Today traces how a second effort, deliberately sending ...

The Very Large Array is a collection of 27 radio antennas located near Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna in the array measures 82 feet (25 m) in diameter and weighs about 507,000 pounds (230 metric ...

When we think of extraterrestrial intelligence that might be out there among the stars, we tend to think of creatures not too ...

Humanity has been looking for aliens for decades but has yet to find any evidence. A new study suggests we may just be in a sort of cosmic blind spot for alien radio signals. The possible existence of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of an exoplanet in an alien star system. New research suggests that radio emissions from intelligent aliens may be ...

Astronomers hunting alien signals say turbulent stellar plasma around distant worlds may be scrambling extraterrestrial transmissions before they ever reach Earth, according to a new study published ...

Are there no alien signals to find... or do we need to update how we search for them? We’ve been looking for messages from the stars ever since Frank Drake pointed the Green Bank radio telescope at ...

Staring into the starry night sky convinces many of us that we can’t be alone in this universe. So far, astronomers have been looking for alien signals in a specific part of the radio spectrum, which ...

Detected in 1977, the Wow! Signal is the strongest candidate for a genuine alien transmission, but where did it come from? This study may have the answer. A scientist may have pinpointed the origin of ...

Aliens could already be broadcasting clear signals across the cosmos while humans remain 'utterly blind' to them, according to astronomer Prof. Jon Willis, who argues that our current search ...