Now that NASA’s Kepler space telescope has identified 1,235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the most ...

Scientists are pouring their resources into searching for signs of life on other planets—but how might extraterrestrial life find us? An experiment spearheaded by the SETI Institute studies how alien ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had contemplated the existence of life beyond Earth. As our technology matured and we ...

To go where few people have gone before, a team of expert scientists, mountain-climbers, and divers will explore the ecosystems of three high-altitude summit lakes to understand microbial life’s ...