According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

The shallow pond looked almost completely empty in the darkness as he stepped into the muddy water and began searching with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new planetary habitability model could make the search for aliens more efficient by quickly identifying rocky worlds unlikely to ...

If ancient alien explorers ever traipsed through Earth's cosmic neighborhood, could it be possible they left behind some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed ...

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 are pouring their resources into searching for signs of life on other planets—but how might extraterrestrial life find us? An experiment spearheaded by the SETI Institute studies how alien ...

There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them “Here in our own Solar System, a single star anchors the system ...