New study outlines the first quantitative framework for searching lunar regolith for microscopic technosignatures.

The research, led by a SETI scientist, takes a completely different approach to the existing efforts of searching for life beyond our planet.

What: A SETI Live conversation about a solar eruption that began to rise from the Sun but ultimately failed to escape. Guests ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The planetary radar, built in 1960 in Crimea, from which the Morse signal 'MIR, Lenin, USSR' was sent in November 1962. National ...

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 ...

We can't help ourselves but wonder about life elsewhere in the universe. Any hint of a biosignature or even a faint, technosignature-like event wrests our attention away from our tumultuous daily ...

Researchers at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute have spent decades scanning the cosmos for any sign proving that humanity is not alone. Considering the unfathomable ...