The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is arguing that our inaugural contact is more likely to be a distress call, the ...

A simulated "alien" signal sent by a Nasa orbiter circling Mars has finally been cracked after months by a father-daughter duo, revealing the cosmic coded message. Nasa collaborated with SETI ...

Astronomers have conducted a search for signs of alien life, specifically in the form of signals, coming from K2-18b. The exoplanet needs little to no introduction to space enthusiasts and those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If Earth's astronomical observatories were to pick up a signal from outer space, it would require an all-hands-on-deck effort to ...

For more than six decades, astronomers have listened for possible signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, with no confirmed detection to date. A new statistical study considers a narrower and ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial civilisations. People around the world have wished for the day we discover an ...

If advanced aliens lived on a planet within a few hundred to a thousand light years away from Earth, then vast numbers of their signals must already have crossed Earth without being noticed, a new ...

Alien hunters update guidance on sharing news of possible intelligent life. Scientists searching for intelligent life beyond Earth have updated their guidance on how the world should be told if a ...

ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth quest has seen scientists trawl through as many as 12 billion signals picked ...

Astronomers hunting alien signals say turbulent stellar plasma around distant worlds may be scrambling extraterrestrial transmissions before they ever reach Earth, according to a new study published ...