Scientists have just completed an extensive search for signs of alien communications technology in the Milky Way's 'solar system 2.0'. Penn State astronomers and scientists at the SETI Institute, ...

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 ...

Alien hunters update guidance on sharing news of possible intelligent life. Scientists searching for intelligent life beyond Earth have updated their guidance on how the world should be told if a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of an exoplanet in an alien star system. New research suggests that radio emissions from intelligent aliens may be ...

Humans have been searching for signs of alien life for many years. From signals from space to potential sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the sky, mankind’s curiosity has sought to ...

Seventy-five years ago, a group of Dutch astronomers made a remarkable discovery. Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the most mysterious and powerful events in the universe. FRBs are extremely bright millisecond-long bursts of radio waves issuing from interstellar space. Only 80 of ...

There was excitement this week when it emerged a Russian radio telescope had detected a strong signal coming from the direction of a star 95 light years away from Earth. Could alien life finally have ...

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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 ...

Astronomers hunting alien signals say turbulent stellar plasma around distant worlds may be scrambling extraterrestrial transmissions before they ever reach Earth, according to a new study published ...