Although no aliens were found, the results have helped constrain expectations of possible alien transmitter power. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The European Low Frequency Array of radio telescopes is performing Breakthrough Listen's first-ever search at megahertz radio frequencies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

One of the longest-standing techniques in humanity’s search for life beyond Earth may be causing scientists to miss alien signals entirely, a new study finds. Since the very beginnings of the search ...

Owen Johnson receives funding from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. Is there life beyond Earth? The question has turned out to be one of the hardest to answer in science. Despite the seemingly ...

SETI might not have succeeded in finding alien life yet because space weather around other stars could be disrupting aliens' attempts to send radio messages out, according to a new study that tries to ...

A signal heralded as the best candidate yet for evidence of alien technology has finally been analysed, and it turns out that it was almost certainly just interference from our own radio technology.

China reported this week that the most powerful ground-based radio telescope may have identified technological traces of an alien civilization in an electromagnetic signal from space. The Five-hundred ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

A search of more than 1,300 galaxies for extraterrestrial signals has helped to constrain expectations as to how many communicating, technological civilizations may exist beyond Earth. Conducted with ...

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