The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

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

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

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

We've all grown up dreaming of aliens landing on the Earth or laser beaming across the sky; well, either way, it's sci-fi and ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS showed no signs of alien technology, according to sensitive radio observations conducted by scientists.

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

Scientists have sought out and detected radio emissions from from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, all but confirming that it has natural origins.

Is 3I/ATLAS an alien probe? Breakthrough Listen uses the Green Bank Telescope to search for technosignatures as the ...

One of science’s greatest honours is to have something named after you. For example, geographer Alexander von Humboldt is remembered by a penguin, a Californian county, a mountain range and so much ...

In her new book "First Contact," journalist Becky Ferreira explores the scientific search for alien life, our cultural obsessions with extraterrestrials and why the truth may be more human than we ...