The mysterious “Wow!” signal from deep space, caused by a yet unknown astronomical event, was much stronger than previously thought, a new study suggests.“Wow!” is the name given to the enigmatic and ...

On a quiet August night in 1977, something extraordinary happened in the Ohio countryside that would captivate scientists and ...

For more than 60 years, scientists have been searching the cosmos for possible signs of radio transmission that would indicate the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). In that time, the ...

Dr. Manuel Schelf, the lead author of the study from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, stated, "For 10 civilizations to coexist with us, the average lifespan must exceed 10 million years. The number ...

The search for life in outer space hit a snag earlier this week when the SETI@Home project ran into some very terrestrial problems. A group of vandals apparently disrupted cables in the SETI@Home ...

As you might expect, the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo has a fascination with radio signals from space. While doing ...

This week astronomers from twelve countries on six continents will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by beginning a coordinated series of ...

A new project aims to help prepare humanity for the day — should it ever come — that we make contact with intelligent aliens. At 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) on Wednesday (May 24), Europe's Trace Gas Orbiter ...

The Breakthrough Listen project has made several attempts to find evidence of alien civilizations through radio astronomy. Its latest effort focuses attention on the center of our galaxy. The idea ...

Imagine that you live alone in a dark, hilly wood that stretches for miles in all directions. You know your own forest well, having hiked and surveyed it as far as your feet and your tools allow. In ...

The year was 1999, and the Intel Pentium III was the most powerful CPU on the market, screaming along at 500MHz. The University of California Berkeley sought to tap into the power of idling PCs to ...