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.

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

In 1977, astronomers detected a powerful, narrowband radio signal that appeared to come from deep space. It lasted just 72 ...

There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive ...

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

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research ...

Estimating the chance of getting a message from life beyond Earth, say within the next decade, isn’t easy. Even the best experts are reluctant to offer precise odds. “Anybody who gave you a figure ...

A mystery " alien " signal from outer space has been tracked down to its source. First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts, or FRBs, last only a millisecond and can carry an enormous amount of ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

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