The search for alien life has been boosted after an atmosphere was detected surrounding an Earth-like planet for the first ...

According to popular media, the search for alien life involves advanced technology, space exploration and sometimes even government conspiracies and secret programs. But according to University of ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new planetary habitability model could make the search for aliens more efficient by quickly identifying rocky worlds unlikely to ...

Astronomers have been scanning the skies for alien radio signals for decades, but so far they’ve heard nary a peep (with one possible exception). But according to a recent study, that could be because ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...