If and when SETI discovers alien life, a revised Declaration of Principles guarantees once the discovery has been verified, ...

The “post-detection protocols” for announcing the discovery and existence of alien life have just had their first major ...

Scientists updated first contact protocols for 2026, requiring multiple verification steps and UN consultation before ...

New SETI protocols outline how scientists should verify, share, and respond to potential evidence of alien intelligence in ...

The IAA SETI Committee has updated rules for evaluating and revealing the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence.

Explore how cutting edge telescopes, AI, and new detection methods are transforming the extraterrestrial life search and advancing scientific approaches to alien detection. Pixabay, WikiImages The ...

In the endless search for technosignatures—signs from some technologically advanced intelligent alien civilization—we’ve done everything from monitoring radio arrays to hypothesizing about whether ...

So far astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets—worlds that orbit stars other than our sun. If that number already feels ridiculously large, you’d better brace yourself: extrapolation of ...

Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...