Some of the most tantalizing hints in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence have not been messy or chaotic, but eerily precise. A handful of radio and optical blips have looked so clean, so ...

For over two decades, millions volunteered their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS. In July, ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...