When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Ken and Keli Chaffin A father-daughter team has decoded a mock "alien" message after a ...

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 ...

For decades, storytellers have been imagining what it might be like when humanity first makes contact with an alien intelligence. In 1998, author Ted Chiang delivered the novella “Story of Your Life,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

The message behind A Sign In Space, as found by Ken and Keli Chaffin. Credit: Ken and Keli Chaffin via A Sign In Space Last year, contemporary artist Daniela de Paulis partnered with the European ...

Machine-learning algorithms being used to better understand the communication of dolphins could form the basis for understanding aliens — if we ever find them. When you purchase through links on our ...

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A Kentucky city has drummed up a unique way to boost tourism in the Blue Grass state — by blasting an invitation to aliens possibly living in a star system 40 lightyears away. Scientists in Lexington ...