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 ...

Your phone buzzes with a breaking news alert: "Astronomers detect unusual signal from distant star system." Within hours, social media explodes with alien conspiracy theories, deepfake "evidence," and ...

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 ...

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

It's one of the most popular themes in science fiction—top secret government experts are ready to spring into action if a UFO appears. For example, in the novella-based 2016 film Arrival, the ...