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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 ...
Researchers used the Green Bank Telescope to study the interstellar comet and found that it exhibits typical cometary behavior, with no unusual features detected ...
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Alien signal or not?

Chinese scientists' claims that their "Sky Eye" telescope could have picked up signals from intelligent aliens have been met with skepticism by an American colleague. Joshua delivers reality check to ...
If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...
If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...
Astronomers have detected the first-ever "radio signal" coming from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, right as it passed the halfway mark on its oneway trip through the solar system. And while this may ...
This post contains spoilers for Vince Gilligan’s new Apple TV series Pluribus. If it would make you unhappy to read them before seeing the first two episodes, keep this tab open until you watch them.
Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...
The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...
In 1977, the Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope received an unusually strong narrowband radio signal, leading to widespread excitement about the possibility of having encountered evidence ...
Alien: Earth definitely gets a lot right, but after watching the season 1 finale, I'm torn, because it gets a lot of things wrong, too. There's clear commitment to certain aspects of the Alien ...
Researchers in China have conducted the most thorough search yet for alien radio signals in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system, which may harbor potentially Earth-like planets. When you purchase through ...