"If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there." ...

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...

Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis reveals ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from extraterrestrials. The paper, penned by researchers at the SETI (Search ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

A new investigation into an infamous UFO conspiracy claims to have uncovered proof that top-secret documents labels as fakes ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

As part of a golden age of exploration and discovery, NASA announced Friday the agency is increasing its cadence of missions ...

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...

NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget ...