SETI's 1977 "Wow!" signal from deep space was even stronger than originally thought, but its source remains a complete mystery.

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, together with its network of collaborators, has undertaken observations of 3I/ATLAS using ...

In November, SETI Institute researchers contributed expert perspective to media stories on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and ...

SETI scientists have detected signals that don’t behave like anything found in nature — narrowband, repeating, and drifting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. SETI@Home gave rise to an active online community of volunteers and enthusaists.

The timing couldn't be worse, say SETI scientists. After millenniums of musings, this spring astronomers announced that 1,235 new possible planets had been observed by Kepler, a telescope on a space ...

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The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence is a series of projects that scrub the background noise of the universe to look for alien life. One of the most famous ventures under the name was ...

If aliens are synchronizing their signals with light coming from supernova 1987A, then the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is on the case. Scientists with the institution say they may ...

1984: The SETI Institute is founded. Man's fascination with the possibility of intelligent life existing elsewhere has been around since the first Cro-Magnon cast a wondering eye to the heavens. The ...

Designer Tomáš Holek and the team at CGE rounded off some of the edges for SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Many common ideas about SETI just aren't true, but that doesn't prevent them from popping up in ...