SETI Institute

Astronomers just picked up a 9 billion-year-old radio signal from space

These compositions are chemical, not musical.

By Cassidy Ward | 

2 months ago

Could aliens send us quantum messages across the galaxy?

Someone's going to make a killing on quantum caller ID.

By Cassidy Ward | 

8 months ago

If we did get a call back from E.T., what would that even be like?

The only thing it won't involve is an actual phone.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

11 months ago

Future telescopes straight out of sci-fi could directly seek out alien tech

If E.T. isn’t phoning home, maybe we’re just going to have to find his number.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

11 months ago

Astronomers phoned E.T. in the center of the galaxy but got a dead signal

Hello? Nothing? Not even voicemail?

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

1 year ago

Bummer, that extraterrestrial signal from Proxima Centauri wasn’t aliens

Remember that strange signal from Proxima Centauri everyone thought was an extraterrestrial technosignature?

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

1 year ago

SETI scientist insists we'll discover extraterrestrials by the year 2036

By Jeff Spry | 

2 years ago

Amateur astronomer narrows down the culprit star of SETI's famous 1977 Wow! signal

By Jeff Spry | 

2 years ago

Old Kepler data reveals a planet so eerily similar to Earth, something could be crawling on it

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

2 years ago

SETI project searched 1,300 stars for aliens but E.T.'s still not answering

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

3 years ago