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 ...

As yet there is still no answer, but the best way of finding out is to detect technosignatures, or evidence of technology, that alien civilisations may have developed. The only problem is that ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

A NEW machine has discovered eight “signals of interest” during a scan of space. It is a “promising” sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, according to ...

It was 40 years ago that two Japanese astronomers, Masaki Morimoto and Hisashi Hirabayashi, sent a radio signal towards a star called Altair, 16.7 light years away. Using a Stanford University ...

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 new machine learning method has found eight previously undetected “signals of interest” in the search for alien life, scientists say. Those signals of interest – coming from five stars relatively ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a trove of mysterious radio signals - experts have speculated about their creator. Canadian scientists discovered the signals - known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) - between ...

Breakthrough Listen monitors the skies with radio telescopes in search of ‘technosignatures’ or what we humans would recognize as signs of technologically-advanced activity (Picture: Jon Arnold Images ...

SETI's 1977 "Wow!" signal from deep space was even stronger than originally thought, but its source remains a complete ...

As comet-like object 3I/ATLAS speeds through the solar system, debate is intensifying over whether it’s of alien origin or part of a government cover-up. Skywatch Signal/X Twitter A newly detected ...