René Heller, astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, has set a challenge to the public - to crack an encrypted binary message. The idea being, that if some bright spark ...

For those of us who wonder if earthlings are the only intelligent species in the Milky Way and beyond, try this theory on for size: Two scientists in Kazakhstan believe humans may have an ...

Scientists are putting together a protocol for the moment Earth receives a message from extra-terrestrial life, despite a report in the US that suggests contact is unlikely any time soon. Earlier this ...

The notion that life on Earth has alien origins is nothing new, but a pair of researchers believe that they have cracked an ancient code which prove that life was planted on Earth by extraterrestrial ...