New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier than believed.

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What: UC Berkeley researchers complete a comprehensive scientific analysis of the SETI@home archive, identifying ...

If we were to ever find alien life, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

The Green Bank Telescope is the most precise large radio dish on Earth, capable of detecting faint cosmic signals from across the universe. This video takes you inside the radio quiet zone where ...

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 ...

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

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Remember that scene in the 2002 film "Signs" when Joaquin Phoenix wore an aluminum foil cap to defend against extraterrestrial mind control?