Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission. And it could be coming from one of the nearest ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is arguing that our inaugural contact is more likely to be a distress call, the ...

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. ...

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is likely here to stay. Its ravenous need for computational power has overwhelmed chip manufacturers and power companies alike. While our current AI ...

With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy—with every new advanced telescope, we have the potential to see (or in some cases, listen) farther and more ...

Researchers are zeroing in on more deliberate “narrow-band” alien signals, well outside the radio frequencies SETI has focused on for decades. Reading time 3 minutes For over half a century, the ...

If advanced aliens lived on a planet within a few hundred to a thousand light years away from Earth, then vast numbers of their signals must already have crossed Earth without being noticed, a new ...

If it were a phone call, we might call it a butt dial: A strong radio signal that set off questions about whether it emanated from an advanced alien race earlier this week is now believed to have come ...

Below is my ham radio. I have a permit for it, and you're allowed to use it. Adjust the bands and the dials to see if you can make contact with an alien! There are eight alien signals hidden within ...