René Heller, astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, has set a challenge to the public - to crack an encrypted binary message. The idea being, that if some bright spark ...

The notion that life on Earth has alien origins is nothing new, but a pair of researchers believe that they have cracked an ancient code which prove that life was planted on Earth by extraterrestrial ...

Scientists are putting together a protocol for the moment Earth receives a message from extra-terrestrial life, despite a report in the US that suggests contact is unlikely any time soon. Earlier this ...