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 ...

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The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

Astronomers working at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico have detected a weird radio signal, spotted when pointing their telescope at the nearby star Ross 128. They’re not getting too excited ...

This year, the US Congress has heard testimonies from "UFO witnesses", suggesting there is more evidence than ever of attempts by alien intelligence to make contact with Earth. But what have been the ...

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Researchers from SETI hope to discover whether deep space mystery object was built by an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to ...

A radio signal sent from deep space eight billion years ago is the oldest and most distant ever detected – but astronomers are not sure what caused it. Known as a ‘fast radio burst’ (FRB), the remote ...

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A Voyager spacecraft leaving the solar system – but could aliens be listening in? (Getty) Earth might have inadvertently sent messages to alien civilisations – and we could get a reply from aliens ...

It seems that with every new piece of information we learn about the vastness of the universe, the likelihood of contacting an intelligent alien lifeform gets smaller. But there has been a shift in ...

The nation’s massive 500m wide dish, based in south west China's Guizhou Province, is the largest in the world and could be a scientists’ best hope of finding alien life. The Five-hundred-meter ...