This week astronomers from twelve countries on six continents will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by beginning a coordinated series of ...

For more than 60 years, scientists have been searching the cosmos for possible signs of radio transmission that would indicate the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). In that time, the ...

After nearly four years of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, the SETI@home project will now take a closer look at its most promising candidate radio sources. The “Stellar Countdown” will ...

The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley called on volunteers to lend their home computers to search for signs of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley are using the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in China to check ...

Astronomers searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence are about to zoom in on 150 of the more tantalising radio transmissions that have reached Earth. SETI@home, a massively popular ...

People have been looking up at the Milky Way for thousands of years, marveling at its vastness. It was only a matter of time before they began to wonder if life similar to ours could exist on the ...