Some of the most tantalizing hints in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence have not been messy or chaotic, but eerily ...

A distant pulsar’s radio signal flickers as it passes through space, much like stars twinkle in Earth’s atmosphere. By ...

A star system 94 light-years away is in the spotlight as a possible candidate for intelligent inhabitants, thanks to the discovery of a radio signal by a group of Russian astronomers. HD 164595, a ...

For more than 60 years, scientists have been searching the cosmos for possible signs of radio transmission that would indicate the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). In that time, the ...

The $100 million Breakthrough Listen Initiative, founded by the billionaire, technology and science investor Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, has identified a mysterious radio signal that seems to come ...

SETI scientists have detected signals that don’t behave like anything found in nature — narrowband, repeating, and drifting as if something is moving fast. Could these be side effects of alien ...

LaserSETI instruments at Isla Magueyes, Puerto Rico. From left to right: Dr. Abel Méndez, student Francisco Pacheco-Vellón, Dr. Franck Marchis, Dr. Lauren Sgro, and LaserSETI Principal Investigator ...

Don’t roll out the welcome mat for the extraterrestrials just yet, say Bay Area researchers responding to a report that a Russian team detected a radio signal from a star 94 light years away. SETI ...

A strange signal has been detected coming from a nearby star, Proxima Centauri. Nicknamed the “Wow! 2020 signal,” it was detected as part of the Breakthrough Listen project which works on the search ...

Michael Garrett is a member of the Breakthrough Listen Advisory Board. I'm the co-vice-chair of the Int. Academy of Astronautics SETI Permanent Commitee (SETI PC) The US$100m (£70m) Breakthrough ...

If BLC-1 finally emerges as a true SETI signal candidate, it will be the first since the "Wow! signal" recorded back in 1977. This is perhaps the most famous example of an inconclusive SETI ...