For over two decades, millions of personal computers around the world have joined forces to scan radio signals from the cosmos, hoping to identify a trace of technological life beyond our planet.

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A new study suggests a novel approach in the long-running scientific endeavor to find intelligent life beyond Earth. Instead of casting a wide, speculative net across the cosmos, researchers from Penn ...

February 12, 2024, Mountain View, CA -- In a paper published in the Astronomical Journal, a team of researchers from the SETI Institute, Berkeley SETI Research Center and the University of Washington ...

We can't help ourselves but wonder about life elsewhere in the universe. Any hint of a biosignature or even a faint, technosignature-like event wrests our attention away from our tumultuous daily ...

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Jill Tarter, co-founder of the SETI Institute and one of the most influential figures in the scientific search for life beyond Earth, has been named the ...

Jupiter's moon Europa may have the ingredients necessary for hosting life: liquid water, an energy source and organic compounds. NASA / JPL-CALTECH / SETI INSTITUTE Estimating the chance of getting a ...

In the third week of August 1977, Ohio State University astronomer Jerry Ehrman was going over a computer printout of signals collected a few days earlier from his university’s “Big Ear” radio ...