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 ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...