SETI is entering an AI-assisted era in which more kinds of technosignatures can be found faster. The safeguard is not a single higher threshold, but a public evidence ladder that separates anomaly, ...

Scientists searching for advanced alien civilizations have detected a mysterious signal in data from the world's largest ...

The “post-detection protocols” for announcing the discovery and existence of alien life have just had their first major update in 16 years, though the all-important "no reply" rule remains in place.

When we think of extraterrestrial intelligence that might be out there among the stars, we tend to think of creatures not too ...

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