One of the longest-standing techniques in humanity’s search for life beyond Earth may be causing scientists to miss alien ...
New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...
The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.
People have been looking up at the Milky Way for thousands of years, marveling at its vastness. It was only a matter of time before they began to wonder if life similar to ours could exist on the ...
The SETI Institute continues to answer the age-old question: “Are We Alone?” From celebrating 40 years of groundbreaking research to exploring the potential of AI in extraterrestrial communication, ...
December 10, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- For 10 months, a SETI Institute–led team watched pulsar PSR J0332+5434 (also called B0329+54) to study how its radio signal "twinkles" as it passes through gas ...
The latest hunt for alien signals in the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system has test-driven a new strategy that will allow astronomers to perform a more efficient, targeted search for technological ...
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, published by Oxford University Press in August 2025. John Gertz is the ...