Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping argues as much, and his “Eschatian Hypothesis” reimagines the way ...

ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique.

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

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial civilisations. People around th.

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 ...

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

Scientists used the 100-metre Green Bank Telescope to look for alien signals but detected no radio signals from 3I/ATLAS.

Astronomers conducted a radio scan of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, finding no credible signs of artificial technology, supporting its natural origin.

Researchers used the Green Bank Telescope to study the interstellar comet and found that it exhibits typical cometary behavior, with no unusual features detected ...

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On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, received the most powerful signal it would ever detect during its decades of observations. The signal lasted just 72 seconds, but ...