For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has largely been predicated on a specific assumption: that advanced civilizations will inevitably grow, expanding their energy consumption and ...

This month’s newsletter explores evolving ideas of life across art, astrobiology, and speculative futures. We are excited to ...

Aliens, art, and artificial intelligence are about to collide at the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Institute (SETI) in Mountain View, California, which has awarded Mexico City artistic research ...

SETI@Home gave rise to an active online community of volunteers and enthusaists. After more than 20 years of searching for extraterrestrial radio signals, the SETI@Home project is going into ...

In 1960, astronomer Frank Drake pointed the Green Bank Observatory’s giant radio telescope at two Sun-like stars for 150 hours hoping to find a hint of alien life. Drake’s search was unsuccessful but ...

The Breakthrough Initiatives, a program founded in 2015 to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), recently submitted two papers covering the analysis of its first three years of radio ...

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 ...

The search for intelligent life in the universe could get funding from the space agency, but a number of hurdles remain. The current budget authorization bill includes a recommendation that NASA spend ...

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...