Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

“I have no clue if there are aliens out there,” concedes Douglas Vakoch, director of METI International, an organization committed to contacting extraterrestrial intelligence. But he is certain that ...

Scientists warn humanity that the first contact with an alien civilisation may be loud, chaotic and extreme, potentially ...

On a hot November day in the tropical forest of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, amongst the croaking of coquís, the message went out. Warbling audio crackled over loudspeakers—the audible result of the work of ...

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The SETI Institute continues to push the boundaries of space exploration and our understanding of the universe. From deciphering alien messages to searching for extraterrestrial intelligence and ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

The latest hunt for alien signals in the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system has test-driven a new strategy that will allow astronomers to perform a more efficient, targeted search for technological ...