A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), working with international collaborators, have made a striking discovery involving a previously unknown type of cosmic ...

SETI@home has been one of the largest citizen science projects ever, with millions of users around the world.

NASA supercomputer simulations reveal X-ray and gamma-ray signals emitted in the final milliseconds before neutron star mergers, providing insights for future observatories and gravitational-wave ...

Scientists have taken a close look at our activity within the solar system to determine where to look for signals from intelligent alien life. The findings apply if those extraterrestrials explore ...

Alien-hunters are focusing their telescopes on 'pulsar' stars to time their twinkles, giving them a new tool to sift through ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Four days after launching on its third-ever mission, China's mysterious Shenlong robotic space plane has apparently deployed 6 unknown objects in orbit. Some of them appear to be emitting signals.

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

A growing space debris problem leads scientists to use seismic sensors to follow sonic booms from uncontrolled reentries ...

Launched between 1971 and 1987 primarily to collect intelligence data on foreign weapon testing, the last satellites in the JUMPSEAT family were withdrawn from service in 2006. A memorandum dated Dec.