Alien civilisations may have just been given a 400,000-fold boost in their chances of finding humans, according to a new study of where Earth sends its strongest deep-space radio signals. The analysis ...

Scientists may have discovered how extraterrestrial civilizations could actually detect and find Earth.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Even the most sophisticated radio arrays have not yet detected any signals that could have possibly been beamed through space by aliens. But maybe we ...

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 ...

Astronomers have been scanning the skies for alien radio signals for decades, but so far they’ve heard nary a peep (with one possible exception). But according to a recent study, that could be because ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we ...