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First alien signal may be a civilization’s final cry

Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping ...
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Advanced alien civilizations could be communicating 'like fireflies' in plain sight, researchers suggest

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

How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS isn't an alien spacecraft, astronomers confirm. 'In the end, there were no surprises.'

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

Scientists pointed a giant telescope at 3I/ATLAS to scan for alien life — this is what they found

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...
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First ever radio signal from interstellar object decoded by astronomers

Scientists discovered 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025, making it the third interstellar object ever detected passing through our solar system. This massive comet, several miles wide, travels at an incredible ...