SETI is entering an AI-assisted era in which more kinds of technosignatures can be found faster. The safeguard is not a single higher threshold, but a public ...

Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission. And it could be coming from one of the nearest ...

People were allegedly advised to call the United Nations' "alien communications specialist" if they made contact with ...

The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...

After nearly a decade, Ridley Scott is returning to the Alien franchise with a contemporary take. The Academy Award honoree recently revealed that he’s “rewriting the next Alien film,” which will ...

Given the size and age of the universe, it should be full of species with technology far more advanced than our own. So where are they? The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click ...

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Astronomers may have been listening for alien civilizations in only a small slice of the radio spectrum while overlooking a largely unexplored range of higher frequencies. Using archived data from the ...

Scientists around the world have spent decades pointing radio telescopes at the sky, hoping to catch that one signal proving we’re not alone in the universe. But now researchers at SETI are asking: ...

Astronomers searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence may have been missing alien signals in part of the radio spectrum that has not recently been explored. Most radio SETI (Search for ...

Researchers are zeroing in on more deliberate “narrow-band” alien signals, well outside the radio frequencies SETI has focused on for decades. Reading time 3 minutes For over half a century, the ...