“I have no clue if there are aliens out there,” concedes Douglas Vakoch, director of METI International, an organization committed to contacting extraterrestrial intelligence. But he is certain that ...

Scientists warn humanity that the first contact with an alien civilisation may be loud, chaotic and extreme, potentially ...

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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 ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been defined more by silence than discovery, but that balance may be starting to shift. As new telescopes, algorithms, and theoretical ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...