The headlines said we might have found alien life — but the reality is far more complicated. Scientists detected a possible ...

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 ...

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Researchers may have finally traced 1977’s famous extraterrestrial anomaly back toward massive, naturally occurring hydrogen ...

What if humanity’s first unmistakable sign of alien technology is not a greeting, but a distress flare? That possibility sits at the center of a growing idea in technosignature research: the signals ...

Turbulent plasma near distant stars could blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems - making them ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the ...

Institute has found that we may have missed transmissions from intelligent alien life for a very benign reason. SETI’s searches are focused only on very narrow signals, so the organization typically ...

Oxygen has been the most important gas in our search for life among the cosmos thus far. On Earth, we have it in abundance ...

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...

Project Hail Mary ," the movie adaptation to Andy Weir's 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes ...

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...