Responding to a message from an advanced extraterrestrial society could prove very costly to life as this could alert them to our whereabouts. Not only that, the message could contain vicious malware ...

The concentrated effort to find evidence of alien life has so far failed to prove we are not alone in the universe. But scores of conspiracy theorists believe aliens are real and exist alongside ...

A simulated "alien" signal sent by a Nasa orbiter circling Mars has finally been cracked after months by a father-daughter duo, revealing the cosmic coded message. Nasa collaborated with SETI ...

ADVANCED aliens could be using light from stars to try and communicate with us or each other, according to new research. A quantum physicist has proposed that a smart extraterrestrial civilisation may ...

Despite decades of sending sounds and pictures into space no aliens have responded. Have we been doing it wrong? Tracey Logan investigates, and discovers some novel attempts to make contact – ...

ALIENS will choose to destroy humanity by “hacking” our planet over blasting us with space weapons. That’s the bonkers claim made by one group of scientists, who warn a single message sent by ET could ...

If you could have a conversation with an alien, what would you say? Well, that's exactly what scientists have been looking into! They've come up with a special message to send into space which they ...

Forget waiting for ET to call — the most likely place to find an alien message is in our DNA, according to an expert in Australia. Professor Paul Davies, from the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

ADVANCED aliens could be using light from stars to try and communicate with us or each other, according to new research. A quantum physicist has proposed that a smart extraterrestrial civilisation may ...