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

For centuries, humans have gazed at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe. The question of ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. One of the pulse signals was detected in the light of a star called HD 89389, which is located in ...

The UK’s Defence Intelligence Staff — now called Defence Intelligence — part of the country’s defense ministry, was given ...

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

The third known visitor from another star system, Comet 3I/ATLAS, has been racing through the Solar System with just enough ...

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

The SETI Institute recently began searching for signs of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in distant galaxies outside our own. The research comes at a time when the notion that strange crafts ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...