When you're looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you're looking for and to go about it in the most efficient way. But work so far has generally not done so, writes ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb denied predicting that aliens would reveal themselves within 16 days, rejecting a claim that ...

Following the government's release of declassified UAP files, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) updated its list of eight principles that were designed to guide our search for ...

A civilization capable of interstellar travel may also be one that has moved beyond conquest, excess and ecological ...

The ATA-ASP campaign is a radio technosignature survey of the Anti-Solar Point as a "Schelling point", using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a multidisciplinary research area focused on detecting evidence of technologically advanced civilizations beyond Earth, primarily through their ...

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In the third week of August 1977, Ohio State University astronomer Jerry Ehrman was going over a computer printout of signals collected a few days earlier from his university’s “Big Ear” radio ...