The latest hunt for alien signals in the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system has test-driven a new strategy that will allow astronomers to perform a more efficient, targeted search for technological ...

For decades, storytellers have been imagining what it might be like when humanity first makes contact with an alien intelligence. In 1998, author Ted Chiang delivered the novella “Story of Your Life,” ...

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

Some of our SETI Institute team members at Pixar Animation Studios. A new documentary film, recently released, celebrates first contact with aliens and highlights the importance of SETI research in ...

Last year, US Congress held public hearings on UFOs, which had many people excited about the prospect that the government could be hoarding evidence of extraterrestrial life. Well, shelve that notion, ...

This month at the SETI Institute brought exciting news about research and innovations that expand our understanding of the universe and bring us closer to answering one of humanity’s most enduring ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is currently eating the world. Whether you believe it’ll lead to superintelligent machines, the end of humanity, or a bursting bubble, its impact can already be felt in ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

Scientists are pouring their resources into searching for signs of life on other planets—but how might extraterrestrial life find us? An experiment spearheaded by the SETI Institute studies how alien ...

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 ...