A group of Chinese scientists is diving deep into the cosmos in search of alien radio signals from the TRAPPIST-1 star system, which might house planets that could support life. This is no small feat, ...

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 ...

A challenge facing alien hunters is discerning natural from artificial signals, but new research suggests we're better equipped than we thought. Reading time 3 minutes An encouraging new study has ...

Is 3I/ATLAS an alien probe? Breakthrough Listen uses the Green Bank Telescope to search for technosignatures as the ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

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 ...

In 2007, David Narkevic, then a physics undergrad student at West Virginia University, stumbled on something unusual when combing through archival data. Two of his professors, Duncan Lorimer and Maura ...

Astronomers discovered the TRAPPIST-1 system, a family of tightly packed planets swarming a red dwarf star, about eight years ago. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images ...

If aliens are synchronizing their signals with light coming from supernova 1987A, then the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is on the case. Scientists with the institution say they may ...

A graduate student is spearheading an extraordinary scientific endeavor -- a groundbreaking mission to uncover periodic signals emanating from the core of the Milky Way called the Breakthrough Listen ...

Mysterious red lights falling from space, initially thought to be alien signals, have been identified by scientists as red sprites. These rare upper-atmosphere lightning phenomena occur high above ...

May 30, 2023, Mountain View, CA – Akshay Suresh, a graduate student at Cornell University, spearheads an extraordinary scientific endeavor -- a groundbreaking mission to uncover periodic signals ...