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 ...

A recent study by EPFL finds that extraterrestrial signals in the Milky Way are likely rare and distant, with few detectable transmissions reaching Earth at any time ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest hunt for alien signals in the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system has test-driven a new strategy that will allow astronomers to perform a more efficient, targeted search for technological ...

Since the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960, scientists have been scanning the Milky ...

A recent NASA-backed study suggests that alien civilizations could potentially detect some of the signals humans send into space. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University 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 ...