Imagine receiving a message from another world. Not from a distant galaxy millions of light years away, but from a planet orbiting the nearest star system to our own. A mysterious signal appears on ...

They’re hole-ar powered. If super-advanced alien civilizations exist, they would surely require insane amounts of energy to ...

Most alien-signal searches listen to a narrow part of the radio spectrum, but astronomers are now testing higher frequencies that have barely been explored. A first search using archived ALMA ...

Looking ahead: Existing radio surveys may contain signals that were never recognized as potential technosignatures. New ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially ...

Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has so far primarily meant focusing on one particular type of signal—and that ...

Astronomers may have been listening for alien civilizations in only a small slice of the radio spectrum while overlooking a largely unexplored range of higher frequencies. Using archived data from the ...

“There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember.” That line, attributed to Richard Feynman, lands because it gets at a simple, stubborn feeling. The sky looks ...

In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...

In 1961, Dr Frank Drake proposed a probabilistic, though highly speculative, equation to determine the number of intelligent ...

Black holes can release enormous energy through hot disks, surrounding plasma and powerful jets, enough to support a ...

For decades, SETI researchers have focused on finding narrow-band radio signals that might stand out from the natural universe. But what if an advanced civilization that wanted to communicate would ...