Humans have wondered for centuries whether we are alone in the universe — and a new study suggests that if alien ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

Astronomer Jill Tarter has been scanning the skies for signals from intelligent aliens for the past 35 years, but now she's making a career change. Tarter, the inspiration for heroine Ellie Arroway in ...

Did NASA discover city lights on an alien planet? This video explores the implications and details of the findings that ...

SETI Institute researchers suggest solar winds may have obscured alien signals by widening their frequency bands, potentially ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his classic science fiction novel Contact, Carl Sagan remarked, “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems ...

A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...