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

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

1:33 Scientists investigating whether mysterious signal from a distant star could be alien life A group of Russian astronomers have detected a signal from a star system 94 light years away that has ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

We can all relax: there will be no Independence Day-like invasion of Earth. There was much excitement — and skepticism — when it was revealed earlier this week that a mysterious signal had originated ...

A group looking for alien communications among radio signals in space wants more help from home computers to crunch data. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at Home, known as SETI@home, ...

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 ...

A new machine learning method has found eight previously undetected “signals of interest” in the search for alien life, scientists say. Those signals of interest – coming from five stars relatively ...

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...