What would happen if aliens contacted us? It's a longstanding question that now has at least a partial answer after a transmission designed to mimic correspondence from an extraterrestrial ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed four galaxies dating to when the universe was around 300–500 million years old (PA) (PA Archive) Scientists are hoping to receive a message from ...

Astronomers in Japan are eagerly awaiting an alien reply, 40 years after drunken drawings were beamed into space. As of August 22, researchers at the University of Hyogo, in Kobe, Japan, led by Shinya ...

One of the most famous messages ever beamed to space was a string of 1,679 bits sent by the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974. But if E.T. sent us such a string, how could we Earthlings even begin to ...

What if aliens in the universe send a message to Earth, and we can’t understand what they’re saying? Communicating with another species is likely to be tricky, given how difficult it already is for ...

A former US army official reckons extraterrestrials might be delivering a succinct three-word message concerning nukes: "WTF." During a recent UFO session in Congress, Robert Salas, who served as an ...