Transmissions between Earth and our own spacecraft could tell us where to look for potential alien transmissions.

"Using our own deep space communications as a baseline, we quantified how future searchers for extraterrestrial intelligence ...

"Considering the direction and frequency of our most common signals gives insights into where we should be looking to improve ...

Researchers show that planetary alignments make Earth’s strongest space signals easiest for alien civilizations to detect.

The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the ...

In June 2024, astronomers detected a peculiar series of repeating radio signals from deep space, named FRB 20240619D. Using ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos ...

Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot. Thanks to NGC 6302’s extreme stellar energy, the ...

For years, scientists studying the chemistry of space have been puzzled by an odd problem—there simply isn’t as much sulfur ...