Astronomers might be hunting for alien signals in all the wrong places. A new study by PhD researcher Louisa Mason (University of Manchester) suggests astronomers may be missing potential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of an exoplanet in an alien star system. New research suggests that radio emissions from intelligent aliens may be ...

Scientists around the world have spent decades pointing radio telescopes at the sky, hoping to catch that one signal proving we’re not alone in the universe. But now researchers at SETI are asking: ...

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 ...

This is the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in the Chilean Andes. Here, it’s observing the sky on a night when the moon (not pictured) brightens the darkness. Now, ...

ALMA's DV-59 antenna in the foreground with multiple other antennas observing the sky in a night dominated by the Moon. Astronomers searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence may have been ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Scientists have searched the skies for alien radio signals for more than 60 years, but all ...

For years, astronomers looking for intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations have scanned the skies for a small part of the radio spectrum. To date, they haven’t heard anything. To expand the ...

The search for alien radio signals has spent decades listening in a familiar part of the spectrum. A first-of-its-kind survey now suggests that unexplored higher frequencies could widen the hunt, ...

How can radio astronomers successfully identify extraterrestrial radio signals while discerning them from Earth-based radio signals? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal ...