While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

What does it take to detect a radio signal sent by extraterrestrial life to Earth? Two decades of work involving radio ...

After reviewing almost 30 years of signals, University of California Berkeley researchers have identified 100 mysterious, ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

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

Astronomers are using China's powerful FAST radio telescope to chase after 100 intriguing signals detected by the SETI@home ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed ...