K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life, so astronomers conducted an unusually ...

In Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, opening tomorrow, protagonists race across the globe to expose a decades-long government cover-up and reveal to the world that extraterrestrial life is real. It’s ...

Artist’s depiction of exoplanet K2-18b. Credit: Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI); Science: Nikku Madhusudhan (IoA) A major SETI search found no artificial narrowband radio signal ...

The Soviet Duga radar system, designed to detect missile launches from geopolitical rivals, disrupted global communication for years. The massive system, comprised of both a transmitting and receiving ...

Astronomers in Japan have recently launched what they say is the country’s first organisation dedicated to the search for alien life, with radio observations planned in the summer next year. “They ...

For more than half a century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been built on the assumption that if aliens exist and try to communicate, their signals will be faint, scattered, and ...

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In the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree sits Giant Rock, one of the largest freestanding boulders in North America. But the rock’s story is far stranger than its size. In the 1930s a hermit named Frank ...

Steven Spielberg and co. have been rather cagey about the details of his upcoming film, but Disclosure Day is almost here. What exactly it is that is going to be disclosed still seems a little ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...