The rules for one of humanity’s biggest possible discoveries just got a lot stricter, and a lot more aware of the world they now have to survive in. An international group of scientists has updated ...

Astronomers have identified 45 Earth-like worlds that could be among the most promising places to search for biosignatures—chemical signs of life in distant atmospheres. Inspired by the idea of a real ...

Throughout June 2026, SETI Institute scientists, affiliates, and collaborators contributed to discussions spanning ...

The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by examining radio waves for artefacts that are unlikely to be the result of natural processes, thinks it may ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a data scale problem. There are just too many places to look for an interstellar signal, and even if you're looking in the right place you could ...

A new SETI study argues that turbulent space weather around distant stars can smear out ultra‑narrow alien radio signals, meaning technosignatures may already have reached Earth.

Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...

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The recent, widely covered signal that's allegedly got SETI hot and bothered is almost certainly not aliens. But that doesn't mean it's not cool. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...