A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

After the Big Bang, the Universe entered a long, dark period before the first stars formed. During this era, hydrogen emitted a faint radio signal that still echoes today. New simulations show this ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Scientists have detected a powerful radio signal originating from a galaxy 8 billion light-years away, marking a significant milestone in our understanding of the universe. This discovery not only ...

The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley ...

Associate Professor of Physics Jonathan Pober has spent the past 20 years detecting faint astronomical signals in radio waves that can provide information about the early universe. This task can be ...

Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small ...

So, has the long-dead satellite has suddenly sprung back to life after nearly 6 decades? Astronomers say that's unlikely. The team of astronomers discovered the strange signal while hunting for bright ...

Scientists have detected ancient microwave signals from the universe's early days. These signals, over 13 billion years old, ...

SETI@home has been one of the largest citizen science projects ever, with millions of users around the world.

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It’s been nearly 50 years since astronomers detected the most famous space signal we’ve ever received—a 72-second radio burst that lit up a printout at Ohio State’s Big Ear radio telescope in 1977.