Scientists searching for extraterrestrial intelligence are testing a new possibility: alien civilizations might transmit ...

Physicist Brian Cox explores the possibility of extraterrestrial civilizations, the search for life on other worlds, and why ...

Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light-years distant. Yet despite the odds, scientists insist that continuing the ...

Finding a signal from an extraterrestrial civilization takes more than just pointing a telescope in the right direction. We ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A high-frequency SETI search using ALMA opened new radio bands and showed that past surveys may have covered millions more stars. ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially ...

Cooperation between Russia and the United States in the field of scientific search for extraterrestrial life and alien ...

Alien life may not need the kind of home humans instinctively search for. Some of the strangest possibilities begin once ...

What if aliens were building a massive power plant?Last time, I talked about the "Kardashev scale," which classifies the ...

Scientists searching for advanced alien civilizations have detected a mysterious signal in data from the world's largest ...

For decades, SETI researchers have focused on finding narrow-band radio signals that might stand out from the natural universe. But what if an advanced civilization that wanted to communicate would ...

When gazing at the countless stars shining in the night sky, have you ever wondered about this?"Is there life other than on ...