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 ...
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 ...
SCIENTISTS have been preparing hoping to receive a message from aliens on August 22 at 10pm BST (5pm ET). Astronomers using Stanford University equiptment beamed a message into space 40 years and ...
The Arecibo Observatory today kicked off a student-focused competition to design a new message to beam to extraterrestrials, 44 years to the day since the first deliberate message was sent out from ...
A Harvard University astrophysicist has sparked a furious debate by warning he cannot rule out that extraterrestrials are ...
Scientists are set to scour decades-old radio signals from deep space as AI warned potential messages from alien life may have been overlooked in the past. Old data has been analysed by the team at ...
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 ...
What would happen if aliens contacted us? It’s a longstanding question that now has at least a partial answer, after a transmission designed to mimic correspondence from an extraterrestrial ...
Scientists are hoping to receive a message from aliens imminently, after waiting for 30 years. But the chances are slim: the message was sent to a star that does not appear to have any planets, and ...