What do aliens sound like? We have no idea, but for Hollwood's smash hit "Project Hail Mary", that was the question that Oscar-winning sound editor Ethan Van der Ryn ("King Kong," "The Lord of the ...

Apparent signs of alien life on the exoplanet K2-18b may just be statistical noise, according to a new analysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope. On 17 April, Nikku Madhusudhan at the ...

Space is silent, or so we’re told. In the vast vacuum between stars and planets, sound waves can’t travel as they do on Earth. But what if that silence is just an illusion? What if the cosmos is ...

A new SETI study argues that turbulent space weather around distant stars can smear out ultra‑narrow alien radio signals, ...

In the frozen vastness of Antarctica, a giant, spider­like antenna eavesdrops on radio waves pulsing around Earth via our planet’s magnetic field. Triggered by solar winds and lightning, these waves ...