For decades, we have been listening to the skies using radio telescopes – hoping to catch the faint chatter of alien signals. But we’ve heard nothing – and one of the reasons might be that we’re ...

Here's the good news: You can turn off the loop of the song from Close Encounters of the Third Kind that you've been playing for the past hour and a half. The bad news has come to pass; We haven't ...

In March 2026, SETI Institute researchers contributed to a wide range of conversations about our solar system and the search ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley are using the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in China to check ...

Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? It’s a question that has been debated for centuries, if not millenia. But it is only recently that we’ve had an actual chance of finding out, with ...

Star systems are clustered tightly together near the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy — and they might hold a pulsating beacon used by alien civilizations to announce important ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute has launched a new campaign in hopes to radically improve our ability to detect signals from advanced alien civilizations. Despite decades ...