Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

Throughout December, the SETI Institute appeared across leading science and media outlets, reflecting the SETI Institute’s continued leadership in research and public engagement.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detected a possible sign of alien life on a distant planet. Alien life has still not been confirmed through science or through studying UFOs (or UAPs). NASA's ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook What if we dropped the "terrestrial" from "extraterrestrial"?

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial civilisations. People around th.