Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of an exoplanet in an alien star system. New research suggests that radio emissions from intelligent aliens may be ...

Did Scientists just detect radio messages from aliens?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a series of papers, astronomers have compared the "Wow!" signal to similar radio signals detected at Big Ear Observatory in ...

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: ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is arguing that our inaugural contact is more likely to be a distress call, the ...

RATHER than transmitting radio messages, extraterrestrial civilisations would find it far more efficient to send us a “message in a bottle” – some kind of physical message inscribed on matter. And it ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...