The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a ...

For decades, scientists have scoured the skies and planetary surfaces for evidence that life might exist beyond Earth. New ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

How can star populations help astronomers re-evaluate the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, also called technosignatures? This is what a study released on the preprint server arXiv, hopes ...

A new study presented at the 2025 EPSC/DPS Joint Meeting proposes that the rarity of specific geological and atmospheric conditions necessary for technologically advanced life significantly limits the ...

Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next? When you purchase through links on our site ...

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...

Science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” And perhaps that fear is what ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

While alien hunting is often associated with tinfoil hats and flying saucers, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ...

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Breakthrough Listen searched for technosignatures from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS but found no unusual signals or behavior ...