For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar fingerprints of biology, researchers are training algorithms to spot the deeper ...

Within the next 20 years, human beings could discover life on other planets. It was this startling prediction—and the subsequent realization that kids sitting in elementary school classrooms today ...

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.

New Board Member: alliant CEO Dhaval Jadav joins the SETI Institute Board of Directors, bringing passion for space science ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A composite view of Mars taken by the Viking I and II probes. NASA/USGS In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible ...

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"The universe is a pretty big place. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space," goes a line from the 1997 film "Contact." In the movie, Jodie Foster plays Dr. Ellie Arroway, a radio ...