Scientists hunting for extraterrestrial life believe alien civilisations may indeed be attempting to contact Earth, but ...

The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

While the exact impact of AI on the job market remains hazy at best, ongoing fears that an AI-triggered job apocalypse is ...

"If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there." ...

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests stellar “space weather” could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence harder to detect. Stellar activity and plasma ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

A new investigation into an infamous UFO conspiracy claims to have uncovered proof that top-secret documents labels as fakes are actually real.

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...