New study outlines the first quantitative framework for searching lunar regolith for microscopic technosignatures.

The research, led by a SETI scientist, takes a completely different approach to the existing efforts of searching for life beyond our planet.

SETI@home has been one of the largest citizen science projects ever, with millions of users around the world.

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 ...

Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Enrico Fermi famously asked "Where is everybody?" back in 1950. This research offers a disarmingly simple partial answer: alien ...