The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

Humans are one step closer to communicating with aliens. The SETI Institute, a non-profit dedicated to understanding life in space, simulated an extraterrestrial signal that was beamed from a Mars ...

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 ...

ALIENS will choose to destroy humanity by “hacking” our planet over blasting us with space weapons. That’s the bonkers claim made by one group of scientists, who warn a single message sent by ET could ...

16:15, Tue, Feb 13, 2018 Updated: 16:23, Tue, Feb 13, 2018 Responding to a message from an advanced extraterrestrial society could prove very costly to life as this could alert them to our whereabouts ...

If you could have a conversation with an alien, what would you say? Well, that's exactly what scientists have been looking into! They've come up with a special message to send into space which they ...

14:15, Wed, Aug 12, 2020 Updated: 14:15, Wed, Aug 12, 2020 The concentrated effort to find evidence of alien life has so far failed to prove we are not alone in the universe. But scores of conspiracy ...

ADVANCED aliens could be using light from stars to try and communicate with us or each other, according to new research. A quantum physicist has proposed that a smart extraterrestrial civilisation may ...

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