A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before they reach us.

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of the early universe. While studying the distant galaxy cluster known as ...

Humans have wondered for centuries whether we are alone in the universe — and a new study suggests that if alien ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of the early universe. While studying the distant galaxy cluster known as ...

For certain situations, older hardware is preferred or even needed to accomplish a task. This is common in industrial applications where old machinery might not be supported by modern hardware or ...

Astronomers have discovered that rapidly spinning extreme dead stars or pulsars push it to the edge, blasting out radio ...

LOFAR radio sky survey map of the universe reveals colossal collisions, strange stars, and cosmic signals never before seen ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 30 (UPI) --One of the longest-running searches for extraterrestrial life is coming to end this year as U.S. scientists wrap up a popular program that enlisted millions of home ...

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 ...

Astronomers found evidence that some of the fastest-spinning stars in the Universe broadcast radio waves from far beyond where scientists thought possible. (Nanowerk News) Pulsars are ultra-dense, ...

What does it take to detect a radio signal sent by extraterrestrial life to Earth? Two decades of work involving radio telescopes stationed on opposite sides of the world, a supercomputer in Germany, ...

Pulsars are ultra-dense, rapidly spinning, and highly magnetized remnants of dead stars. They act like cosmic lighthouses, sending out regular pulses of radio waves and sometimes gamma rays in beams ...