The “post-detection protocols” for announcing the discovery and existence of alien life have just had their first major ...

New SETI protocols outline how scientists should verify, share, and respond to potential evidence of alien intelligence in ...

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a ...

SETI Institute's radio scans of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS found no evidence of alien technology, confirming its natural ...

Scientists have searched one of the only known visitors to us from another solar system for signs of alien technology – and ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...

Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.