ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth ...

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed ...

The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley ...

Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research ...

Most stars in the cosmos are small, cool red dwarfs, yet the only intelligent life we know orbits a relatively rare yellow dwarf under a blue sky. That mismatch is at the heart of the “red sky paradox ...

After reviewing almost 30 years of signals, University of California Berkeley researchers have identified 100 mysterious, ...

UC Berkeley's SETI@home project, a crowdsourced scientific research initiative, identified nearly 12 billion potential ...

Declassified Soviet-era files describe a terrifying night in 1982 when UFOs hovered over a missile base, activated nuclear ...

A vivid sunset? A surprising display of the Northern Lights? Or some other rare phenomenon? No, the answer, however, is sure ...

A dedicated scan for signs of radio-transmitting technology in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has come back with absolute cometary radio silence. The team searched for artificial technosignatures across ...

The project focused on radio signals near the 21-centimetre wavelength, commonly used to study hydrogen gas in the Milky Way. The volunteers downloaded the SETI@home software to analyse data chunks, ...