It starts with a signal. Faint, strange, and unlike anything humanity has ever recorded. Within hours, it escalates into an ...

Searching for alien signals sounds like a question of which star to aim a telescope at. It’s also a question of when to listen, because a civilization sending a focused radio beam toward Earth might ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

In June 2026, numerous Chinese news media outlets reported on updated international guidelines advising researchers not to independently respond to extraterrestrial signals. English-language news ...

Astronomers hunting for aliens find new way to work out when they would contact us - Work uses game theory to try and ...