At SXSW, Steven Spielberg shared his belief in extraterrestrial life, reflected on “E.T.” and warned against AI replacing creative work.

A new study by the SETI Institute suggests that the alien signals might be right here, surrounding us all of the time, and we're just unable to pick them out.

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A visitor from another star system is creating excitement in the astronomy community. The comet 3I/ATLAS which was first spotted in July 2025 contains chemical clues that scientists can use to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, humanity has scoured the cosmos for any signs that we aren't alone in the universe. But now, researchers at the SETI ...

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Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

For the decades that scientists have been looking for alien signals through a work known as SETI, they have tended to look for spikes in frequency. Such signals are thought to be unlikely to be caused ...

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Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...