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

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A group of Chinese scientists is diving deep into the cosmos in search of alien radio signals from the TRAPPIST-1 star system, which might house planets that could support life. This is no small feat, ...

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 ...

The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a proving ground for how serious that search can be. TRAPPIST-1, a dim red ...

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 ...