The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...
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 hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 1960, astronomer Frank Drake used the 85-foot Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope to search for signals from a possible extraterrestrial civilization in Epsilon Eridani (artist’s concept), the closest ...
SETI scientists observing a pulsar’s radio pulses over time are redefining how astronomers time pulsars and search for ...