The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

A legendary signal from deep space, once dismissed by some as statistical noise, has just become even more mysterious.

If Earth’s astronomical observatories were to pick up a signal from outer space, it would require an all-hands-on-deck effort to untangle and decipher the extraterrestrial message. An art project from ...

SETI scientists observing a pulsar’s radio pulses over time are redefining how astronomers time pulsars and search for ...

We've all grown up dreaming of aliens landing on the Earth or laser beaming across the sky; well, either way, it's sci-fi and ...

Mysterious red lights falling from space, initially thought to be alien signals, have been identified by scientists as red sprites. These rare upper-atmosphere lightning phenomena occur high above ...

Scientists searched 27 exoplanets for alien technology using planetary eclipses, revealing a new way SETI hunts signals ...

This year, the US Congress has heard testimonies from "UFO witnesses", suggesting there is more evidence than ever of attempts by alien intelligence to make contact with Earth. But what have been the ...

Researchers have traced a mysterious radio signal to a point within our own galaxy — and the source appears to be more zombie than alien. The signal detected in late April appears to have come from a ...

A NASA astrophysicist argues alien civilizations may be out there—but too quiet or distant for us to detect. Here’s the new theory reshaping the Fermi Paradox.

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