Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping argues as much, and his “Eschatian Hypothesis” reimagines the way ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, ...

Scientists used the 100-metre Green Bank Telescope to look for alien signals but detected no radio signals from 3I/ATLAS.

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

Scientists scanned interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS for alien signals using powerful radio telescopes, found nothing artificial, ...

Researchers used the Green Bank Telescope to study the interstellar comet and found that it exhibits typical cometary behavior, with no unusual features detected ...

A mystery " alien " signal from outer space has been tracked down to its source. First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts, or FRBs, last only a millisecond and can carry an enormous amount of ...

Estimating the chance of getting a message from life beyond Earth, say within the next decade, isn’t easy. Even the best experts are reluctant to offer precise odds. “Anybody who gave you a figure ...

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