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

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

A group of Chinese scientists is diving deep into the cosmos in search of alien radio signals from the TRAPPIST-1 star system ...

Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

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 ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, received the most powerful signal it would ever detect during its decades of observations. The signal lasted just 72 seconds, but ...

The Allen radio telescope array at Hat Creek, California, was tilted towards a piece of the Pisces constellation which has been under Kepler’s careful scrutiny in recent years — it’s sensitive ...

While alien hunting is often associated with tinfoil hats and flying saucers, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ...

THE SETI project — the search for intelligent life — has pointed its ears towards a new planet discovered by the Kepler space telescope. The early results? Silence. The Allen radio telescope array at ...

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