Scientists updated first contact protocols for 2026, requiring multiple verification steps and UN consultation before ...

The IAA SETI Committee has updated rules for evaluating and revealing the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...

Astronomers swept millions of candidates and found no alien signals from K2-18b, setting the first power limit on any ...

Aliens could already be broadcasting clear signals across the cosmos while humans remain 'utterly blind' to them, according ...

The International Academy of Astronautics has overhauled its post-detection protocols, emphasizing scientific rigor and ...

What steps can be taken to identify why we haven’t received radio signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence, also called technosignatures? This is what a recent study published in The ...

If advanced aliens lived on a planet within a few hundred to a thousand light years away from Earth, then vast numbers of their signals must already have crossed Earth without being noticed, a new ...

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, according to a new study that could lead to new approaches in finding ...

We’ve been looking for messages from the stars ever since Frank Drake pointed the Green Bank radio telescope at Tau Ceti and ...

If it were a phone call, we might call it a butt dial: A strong radio signal that set off questions about whether it emanated from an advanced alien race earlier this week is now believed to have come ...