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

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping ...

It was 40 years ago that two Japanese astronomers, Masaki Morimoto and Hisashi Hirabayashi, sent a radio signal towards a star called Altair, 16.7 light years away. Using a Stanford University ...

As yet there is still no answer, but the best way of finding out is to detect technosignatures, or evidence of technology, that alien civilisations may have developed. The only problem is that ...

A new machine learning method has found eight previously undetected “signals of interest” in the search for alien life, scientists say. Those signals of interest – coming from five stars relatively ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on ...

A NEW machine has discovered eight “signals of interest” during a scan of space. It is a “promising” sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, according to ...

SETI's 1977 "Wow!" signal from deep space was even stronger than originally thought, but its source remains a complete ...

A new technique is a dramatic breakthrough in the search for alien life, astronomers say. Researchers at the Breakthrough Listen project based at the University of California, Berkeley say they have ...

As comet-like object 3I/ATLAS speeds through the solar system, debate is intensifying over whether it’s of alien origin or part of a government cover-up. Skywatch Signal/X Twitter A newly detected ...