Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A strange object hurdling through our solar system from interstellar space may, according to one of academia's most controversial ...

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New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is advancing so rapidly that it may soon move beyond human understanding, said former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "An alien intelligence is coming," he said at the Sifted Summit ...

It may not breathe, eat, or sleep. It may not reproduce in any ordinary sense. It may not have a face, a voice, or a body shaped by evolution. It may be a machine. This is not a wild idea – it follows ...

A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...

Scientists working on SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, have turned a student project into a powerful AI-based tool for spotting radio signals that could have been generated by an ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...