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Until its collapse last year, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico spent six decades tuned to the radio stations of the heavens. There is no plan to rebuild it, and astronomers are in mourning.

Remembering Frank Drake, who led science in listening for an extraterrestrial “whisper we can’t quite hear”

Remembering Frank Drake, who led science in listening for an extraterrestrial “whisper we can’t quite hear”

He was convinced that human beings would eventually connect with extraterrestrials, and he inspired others to share that belief.

A pioneering researcher in the field of astronomy known as SETI, or the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Dan Werthimer's work involves scanning the...

Reports emerged last week that Chinese astronomers detected the techno-signatures of an intelligent alien civilization. Now it turns out that the report highlighted signals that are, in fact, likely to have come from human technology.

Earlier this week Chinas giant Sky Eye telescope detected signals it thought could be from an alien civilizations. But now theres an update from LiveScience: Dan Werthimer, a Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) researcher at the University of Berkeley, California and a coauthor on th...

China’s astronomers have been initiated into the search for extraterrestrial intelligence with the kind of false alarm that others in the field have experienced for decades.

Does China have evidence of alien life? Don't bet on it, but that's the unusual question in play after a state-run news site reported, then deleted a story claiming...

What a letdown