Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien ...

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 ...

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

Institute has found that we may have missed transmissions from intelligent alien life for a very benign reason. SETI’s searches are focused only on very narrow signals, so the organization typically ...

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 ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

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 ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?