For decades, storytellers have been imagining what it might be like when humanity first makes contact with an alien intelligence. In 1998, author Ted Chiang delivered the novella “Story of Your Life,” ...

Humanity wants so desperately to be besties with aliens. If they’re out there (and it seems impossible that they’re not) then we just want to be invited to the intergalactic party, already. SYFY’s own ...

A simulated “alien” signal sent by a Nasa orbiter circling Mars has finally been cracked after months by a father-daughter duo, revealing the cosmic coded message. Nasa collaborated with SETI ...

The SETI Institute continues to push the boundaries of space exploration and our understanding of the universe. From deciphering alien messages to searching for extraterrestrial intelligence and ...

When astronomers first picked up a perfectly regular radio heartbeat from deep space in 1967, some of them half-jokingly labeled it a message from “little green men.” That signal, from a spinning ...

On a hot November day in the tropical forest of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, amongst the croaking of coquís, the message went out. Warbling audio crackled over loudspeakers—the audible result of the work of ...

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Speculative alien messages raise unsettling possibilities about cosmic survival, warning that advanced civilizations may ...

Over a year ago, we received a signal from Mars—an encoded message from Europe’s Martian orbiter, picked up by three observatories on Earth. The contents of this simulated alien message, crafted by an ...

Scientists are hard at work considering what kinds of engineering alien probes would need to reach us through interstellar space. However, crossing deep space to reach Earth with a probe would require ...