SETI@home has been one of the largest citizen science projects ever, with millions of users around the world.

Some of the most tantalizing hints in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence have not been messy or chaotic, but eerily precise. A handful of radio and optical blips have looked so clean, so ...

A star system 94 light-years away is in the spotlight as a possible candidate for intelligent inhabitants, thanks to the discovery of a radio signal by a group of Russian astronomers. HD 164595, a ...

The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley called on volunteers to lend their home computers to search for signs of ...

ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth quest has seen scientists trawl through as many as 12 billion ...

December 10, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- For 10 months, a SETI Institute–led team watched pulsar PSR J0332+5434 (also called B0329+54) to study how its radio signal "twinkles" as it passes through gas ...

"...an interstellar traveler will not correspond with its senders because there is no benefit to that": Prof Loeb ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The internet is abuzz with rumors that China may have picked up signals from an alien ...

People have been looking up at the Milky Way for thousands of years, marveling at its vastness. It was only a matter of time before they began to wonder if life similar to ours could exist on the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- The science world has something new to talk about tonight, after reports of a radio blip from galactic space. It might be a ping, that some believe might be a message from ...

The recent, widely covered signal that's allegedly got SETI hot and bothered is almost certainly not aliens. But that doesn't mean it's not cool. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...