If non-human intelligence has ever interacted with Earth, certain locations would be far more likely than others. This episode examines five regions where geography, electromagnetic anomalies, ...

How to recognize extraterrestrial life if space chemistry produces the same building blocks as biology? This fundamental ...

Scientists claim that first extraterrestrial contact will be a loud event impossible to ignore, not a subtle signal.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

A 'perfect storm' of media coverage and highly publicized government investigations is driving many to conclude that ...

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, a leading candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life, has a surface dotted with enigmatic ...

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While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed ...

The project focused on radio signals near the 21-centimetre wavelength, commonly used to study hydrogen gas in the Milky Way. The volunteers downloaded the SETI@home software to analyse data chunks, ...

Scientists have shortlisted 100 unusual radio signals from space after a 21-year search using Arecibo Observatory data. While ...