A distant pulsar’s radio signal flickers as it passes through space, much like stars twinkle in Earth’s atmosphere. By ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

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

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

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

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

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

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

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 ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an ...

Scientists are studying bees’ surprising maths skills to explore whether numbers could be a universal language for ...