In 1977, the alien-hunting astronomer Jerry Ehman spotted a signal from deep space which was so unusual that he scribbled the word "Wow" in the margin of his notebook. Now an American scientist has ...

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 ...

An extraterrestrial alien civilisation could likely intercept transmissions from Earth within the next 100 years, a new study has revealed. The likelihood of transmissions from Nasa’s Deep Space ...

One of the mysteries of space has been perplexing scientists for the last 40 years. Back in 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman received such a strong radio signal coming in from the heavens, he wrote the ...

One evening last year, when his newborn daughter was small enough to hold with one arm, René Heller reached for a book to occupy his mind while he rocked her to sleep. Heller, an astrophysicist at the ...

Recent advances in science and technology have allowed alien hunters to scour the far reaches of space for any signs of alien life. Although we have yet to identify any evidence of extraterrestrial ...

HUMANS are making too much noise through the use of technology that we will not be able to tell if aliens try to contact us, as the search for extraterrestrial life continues, experts reveal. Experts ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute needs your help decoding potential alien signals. At 3 p.m. ET today, the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) Mars ...