The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we ...

Japan's first SETI group plans radio observations near Sagittarius next August, aiming to decode the 1977 signal Astronomers in Japan have recently launched what they say is the country's first ...

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A search for aliens communicating between planets in one of the most promising systems to look for life has come up empty. Discovered in 2017, TRAPPIST-1 is a system of seven Earth-sized planets ...

The Deep Space Network (DSN) is just the sort of tool aliens could one-day detect, transmitting from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL What if the first signal ever detected from an alien lifeform wasn't a ...

Astronomers discovered the TRAPPIST-1 system, a family of tightly packed planets swarming a red dwarf star, about eight years ago. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images ...

Astronomers in Japan have recently launched what they say is the country’s first organisation dedicated to the search for ...