For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from an ordinary handheld radio. Through a careful approach to demodulating the ...

Astronomers have detected the radio afterglow of a powerful space explosion that went unseen, possibly an orphan gamma-ray burst or a rare blackhole event 1.7 billion light-years away ...

Since the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960, scientists have been scanning the Milky ...

Astronomers suspect the heart of the Milky Way may be hiding a big secret: a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic, neutron ...

The MeerKAT radio telescope is actually an array of 64 receptors in the Northern Cape, just a few beats away from the town of Carnarvon.

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

For decades, scientists have been actively searching for signs of extraterrestrial life. Fromradio waves to laser flashes and ...

Astronomers have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology for decades. These searchers since 1960 have ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp ...

An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging black ...

Astronomers identified a strange object in the Milky Way that sends out powerful bursts of radio waves and X-rays with steady timing. The source, know.