The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a proving ground for how serious that search can be. TRAPPIST-1, a dim red ...

For decades, humanity has scoured the cosmos for any signs that we aren't alone in the universe. NASA spacecraft like the twin Voyager probes – launched in the 1970s bearing the iconic Golden Record – ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

Alien civilisations may have just been given a 400,000-fold boost in their chances of finding humans, according to a new ...

Astronomers have been scanning the skies for alien radio signals for decades, but so far they’ve heard nary a peep (with one possible exception). But according to a recent study, that could be because ...

Scientists hunting for radio signals from any form of advanced extraterrestrial life that might be out there trying to contact us are now starting to wonder if something has been messing with their ...

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One of the longest-standing techniques in humanity’s search for life beyond Earth may be causing scientists to miss alien signals entirely, a new study finds. Since the very beginnings of the search ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

Where are all the aliens? No, I don’t mean microbes on Mars or creatures swimming beneath the ice crusts of Europa or Enceladus, but honest-to-God intelligent aliens, capable of space travel? The ...