Astronomer Jill Tarter has been scanning the skies for signals from intelligent aliens for the past 35 years, but now she's making a career change. Tarter, the inspiration for heroine Ellie Arroway in ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

In the third week of August 1977, Ohio State University astronomer Jerry Ehrman was going over a computer printout of signals collected a few days earlier from his university’s “Big Ear” radio ...

SETI Institute researchers suggest solar winds may have obscured alien signals by widening their frequency bands, potentially ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his classic science fiction novel Contact, Carl Sagan remarked, “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems ...

Researchers at SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) might be looking for the wrong thing, says one of SETI's astronomers in The Guardian. They're looking for aliens that are like us.

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episodes 1 & 2. The Alien franchise has always been focused on the race for immortality, and Noah Hawley's perfect organism, the FX original ...

A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...