How can star populations help astronomers re-evaluate the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, also called technosignatures? This is what a study released on the preprint server arXiv, hopes ...

As the research team from Penn State and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed decades of deep-space communication logs, they found patterns in how we have beamed signals into the cosmos. Their ...

Allen Telescope Array campaign shows slow changes in radio scintillation that can nudge pulsar timing by billionths of a ...

If future missions confirm sustained heat flow at both poles, Enceladus would strengthen its position as one of the more accessible environments for detecting extraterrestrial life within the Solar ...

SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for extraterrestrial life ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...

Spielberg fans quickly rushed to social media after seeing the new billboards to theorize about what the still-untitled movie ...

Some scientists believe life could be hiding in our own solar system. But how could that be if there are no other planets or moons that mirror the conditions of our utopic blue dot? After all, Earth ...

There are not a light of silver linings when you find out the Sun is dying and everything on Earth will soon die with it if you—and you alone—can’t find a solution. It’s even harder to find bright ...

A machine learning framework can distinguish molecules made by biological processes from those formed through non-biological processes and could be used to analyze samples returned by current and ...