Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals ...

For more than half a century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been built ...

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Japan's first SETI group plans radio observations near Sagittarius next August, aiming to decode the 1977 signal Astronomers in Japan have recently launched what they say is the country's first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have searched the skies for alien radio signals for more than 60 years, but all they’ve heard so far is what Search for ...

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

Scientists hunting for radio signals from any form of advanced extraterrestrial life that might be out there trying to contact us are now starting to wonder if something has been messing with their ...

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Some readers might find this article best viewed with eerie sci-fi music playing in the background, because this article is about the possibility of alien life. On May 15, 2015, Gizmodo reported, ...

Where are all the aliens? No, I don’t mean microbes on Mars or creatures swimming beneath the ice crusts of Europa or Enceladus, but honest-to-God intelligent aliens, capable of space travel? The ...

A mysterious radio signal has been traced to a galaxy far, far away. And, it's causing a stir among astronomers -- although nobody is sure what it is. Research published this week in the journal ...