The Guardian

Alien false alarm: ‘Extraterrestrial’ radio signals turn out to be human

Australia’s Parkes Observatory detected an ET-like pattern that suggested something was out there. But it was just a case of mixed signals Astronomers searching for alien life thought they’d spotted ...
IBTimes UK

We're no strangers to 'alien' false alarms – one was caused by a microwave oven

The group of Russian astronomers spotted something unusual. They were observing the rather innocuous star HD 164595, located in the constellation of Hercules 94 light years (or about 900 trillion ...
The Guardian

First contact or false alarm? New Richter-like scale for alien signals

Rio 2.0 rates potential signs of extraterrestrial life from 0 to 10, with 10 equivalent to ‘an alien shaking your hand’ When a team of Russian astronomers reported in 2015 that a telescope in the ...
The Financial Times

America under alien alarm and Egypt after the apocalypse — the best new science fiction

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the opening pages of Van Jensen’s Godfall (Bantam £20), the body of a three-mile-tall alien with gleaming ...