In May 2022, the International Journal of Astrobiology published a paper suggesting a candidate source of the WOW! Signal: a possible Sun-like star in the Gaia Archive, 2MASS 19281982-2640123, located ...

As far as interesting problems go, few can really compete with the perennial question: “Are we alone?” The need to know if there are other forms of intelligent life out there in the galaxy is deeply ...

On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, received the most powerful signal it would ever detect during its decades of observations. The signal lasted just 72 seconds, but ...

A study by alien searchers at the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) could explain why humanity has not yet received any alien messages.

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal examines how the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has devised a new method, which the researchers refer to as the scintillation ...

Of the many “maybe’s” that SETI has turned up in its four-decade history, none is better known than the one that was discovered in August, 1977, in Columbus, Ohio. The famous Wow signal was found as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A printout sheet with the word "Wow!" written in red. The Wow! signal is one of the great astronomy puzzles of the past 50 years, ...

As you might expect, the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo has a fascination with radio signals from space. While doing research into the legendary “Wow! Signal” detected back in 1977, they ...

Classic sci-fi makes it seem like our first contact with aliens will be absolutely unmistakeable: a massive, unearthly spaceship landing on Earth with creatures that come out to greet us, or a message ...

HAT CREEK - In the small town of Hat Creek in Shasta County, a few hours north of the Bay Area, a radio observatory is looking for a lot more than just stars. The sensitive receivers scan the radio ...