The quest to find extraterrestrial life is an unending pursuit of science, and one aspect of this search revolves around technosignatures. Detectable from as far as 40 light-years away, Earth’s ...

Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...

Scientists continue to look for signs of alien life on Mars, but this scientist truly popularized the idea, claiming to find ...

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 ...

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

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 ...

Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

For more than 60 years, scientists have been scanning the skies for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. Using powerful telescopes, they have searched for unusual radio signals, brief laser flashes ...

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NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

Earlier this month, astronomers made a fascinating discovery: a mysterious object with interstellar origins, now dubbed 3I/ATLAS, that’s hurtling toward the inner solar system at extreme speeds. As ...