Sagan's team created the greatest puzzle of all time, which you can only solve if your species understands the basic nature ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more natural source.

After decades of sending radio signals into space, humanity finally receives a reply—but it's nothing like anyone expected.

For nearly 60 years, scientists have scanned the skies searching for a message from another civilization. Along the way, they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a series of papers, astronomers have compared the "Wow!" signal to similar radio signals detected at Big Ear Observatory in ...

Computers at the the Big Ear radio telescope would translate radio signals into letters and numbers. Astronomer Jerry Ehmann scribbled "Wow!" next to the sequence 6EQUJ5, which encoded the extremely ...

A new SETI study argues that turbulent space weather around distant stars can smear out ultra‑narrow alien radio signals, meaning technosignatures may already have reached Earth.

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

It’s the world’s most prestigious photography show, but Les Rencontres de la Photographie really flies thanks to the jaw-dropping work of eccentrics, amateurs and complete unknowns ...

Christian UFO researchers argue that many alleged alien abductions are spiritual simulations aimed at undermining Christian doctrine, rather than visits from extraterrestrials.

This 2007 science-fiction thriller is a who’s-who of brilliant actors right before they made it big, and is basically Project Hail Mary’s older, emo cousin ...

While watching the ostentatiously trashy new movie Supergirl, I could not help but think how the mighty have fallen. Or should I say, how the mediocre have fallen? Not being a reader of any iteration ...