Dive into a visually stunning exploration of the search for intelligent life among the billions of stars in our universe. This video delves into the scientific methods and speculative technologies ...

This could be why we still haven’t found alien life - Traces left behind by organisms on alien worlds may be too subtle to ...

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 ...

Scientists may have discovered how extraterrestrial civilizations could actually detect and find Earth.

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 ...

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 ...

A new analysis of NASA's Deep Space Network finds Earth's strongest radio beams align with planetary line‑ups, boosting the chance alien civilisations could detect us and suggesting where and when we ...