Researchers from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) may have figured out why we have not detected any alien ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth ...

Astronomers hunting alien signals say turbulent stellar plasma around distant worlds may be scrambling extraterrestrial ...

The findings of a new study may help "explain some of the radio silence we’ve seen in technosignature searches" for alien ...

If advanced aliens lived on a planet within a few hundred to a thousand light years away from Earth, then vast numbers of their signals must already have crossed Earth without being noticed, a new ...

Humans have been searching for signs of alien life for many years. From signals from space to potential sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the sky, mankind’s curiosity has sought to ...

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 ...

A MYSTERIOUS signal sent to Earth by “Aliens” nearly half a century ago came from a far-away solar system similar to our own, a scientist has claimed. Known as the “Wow!” signal, the strange ...

We might not be looking in the right places, scientists warn ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique. That’s according ...

ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth quest has seen scientists trawl through as many as 12 billion signals picked ...

Professor Avi Loeb’s research suggests tiny fragments of meteorite came from outside the solar system (Pictures: Getty/A Loeb In January 2014, a meteor scorched its way through the atmosphere, a ...

Scientists have updated global guidelines for announcing possible evidence of intelligent alien life, aiming to prevent misinformation, panic and confusion in the age of social media and AI.