Search for Life

Over 1.6 million star systems have been scanned by Europe's LOFAR system so far, but E.T. hasn't been caught phoning home yet.

The Breakthrough Listen initiative has moved its headquarters to the U.K. to take advantage of the reams of data set to come from the Square Kilometer Array.

Superintelligences might reveal themselves through the technosignatures of their cosmic engineering projects.

Any potential alien messages could be too complicated for humans to understand, but AI trained to detect complex structure in communication could help decipher them for us.

For many anxious to throw light on unidentified anomalous phenomena, it's all about reliable, truth-revealing, and scientifically rigorous data collection.

AI is the way forward in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, from detecting radio signals to finding technosignatures on planets.

Based on the valuable scientific contributions microphones have made aboard the Perseverance Mars rover, it's time to turn up the volume on microphones for extra-planetary exploration.

A new class of proteins found in methane deposits on Earth's seafloor could help inform the search for alien life.

The exoplanet K2-18b might host a water ocean.

Self-sustaining chemical reactions that could support biology radically different from life as we know it might exist on many different planets, a new study finds.