For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

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Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

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This is how strange our times are: Last week, two United States presidents engaged the question of whether aliens are real, and it wasn’t even in the top 15 stories of the week. The debate was over ...

More than sixty years ago, Dr. Frank Drake and his colleagues conducted the very first experiment dedicated to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Since then, astronomers have ...

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In 1967, astronomers thought they had finally heard from the neighbors. They intercepted a signal so regular and precise it seemed impossible for it to be natural. But the excitement didn’t last.