Breakthrough Listen is one of humanity’s most ambitious attempts to answer a question we’ve asked for centuries: are we alone ...

Astronomers may have been listening for alien civilizations in only a small slice of the radio spectrum while overlooking a largely unexplored range of higher frequencies. Using archived data from the ...

Remember the "Wow!" signal? That high-energy radio signature occurred in 1977, when Earth was much "quieter" in the radio band. If it happened today, it probably wouldn't even move the needle on the ...

AM signals do strange things inside the earth’s atmosphere, they bounce around a little. Sports talk show host Derek Darr ...

The instrument draws on the interferometry expertise Rhodes University built through MeerKAT and the Square Kilometre Array.

The British daily the Guardian on the 11th (local time) highlighted the problem of the “great silence” in our vast and ...

Sugar Season 3 could turn John’s blinking alien radio into the key to Djen, Acalica, and the next mystery waiting on Apple TV.

The sun sets over Los Angeles with a particularly heavy gloom in the season 2 finale of Apple TV’s Sugar titled “Like Sugar.” Colin Farrell’s titular detective has spent the better part of two seasons ...

Image of ALMA's DV-59 antenna in the foreground with multiple other antennas observing the sky. Credit: ALMA. Confirming the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence via radio signals, also called ...

Scientists around the world have spent decades pointing radio telescopes at the sky, hoping to catch that one signal proving we’re not alone in the universe. But now researchers at SETI are asking: ...

The search for alien radio signals has spent decades listening in a familiar part of the spectrum. A first-of-its-kind survey now suggests that unexplored higher frequencies could widen the hunt, ...