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

Only intelligent signals Breakthrough Listen project detected in first year are from mobile phones and other Earthly devices Astronomers who have been listening for signals from alien civilisations in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Voyager spacecraft leaving the solar system – but could aliens be listening in? (Getty) (MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via ...

Research from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute has found that we may have missed transmissions from intelligent alien life for a very benign reason. SETI’s searches are ...

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 ...

Scientists say bad space weather may be one reason alien tech signals have not reached our telescopes in a usable form, after ...

Mysterious ‘fast radio bursts’ which some scientists have said could be evidence of alien intelligence are definitely coming from space – not Earth. Scientists from Swinburne University of Technology ...

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 ...

A British academic believes he has stumbled on the most world-changing piece of news in recorded history. He told The Mirror: “We have found a non-human extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy, ...

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 ...