Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research ...

In 2007, David Narkevic, then a physics undergrad student at West Virginia University, stumbled on something unusual when combing through archival data. Two of his professors, Duncan Lorimer and Maura ...

In Resident Alien’s Season 2 episode “Radio Harry” (now streaming on Peacock!), Harry takes his alien communications device to a mountain top in order to get the best connection with the passing ...

Humanity experiences unprecedented peace and happiness in Apple TV+’s ‘Pluribus,’ after an alien virus arrives in the form of an extraterrestrial signal. The show opens with a group of scientists ...

China reported this week that the most powerful ground-based radio telescope may have identified technological traces of an alien civilization in an electromagnetic signal from space. The Five-hundred ...

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

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

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If aliens are watching Earth, they might be able to detect us from the radio signals we beam to Mars to control our rovers there. Astronomers have now listened in on the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system to ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 2014, a meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere and burst apart in ...