Humans aren’t just on the hunt for aliens with radiotelescopes and exoplanet research — we’re also actively trying to help aliens find us. One of the most well known of these efforts kicked off 44 ...

Astronomers in Japan are eagerly awaiting an alien reply, 40 years after drunken drawings were beamed into space. As of August 22, researchers at the University of Hyogo, in Kobe, Japan, led by Shinya ...

In October, we reported that scientists planned to craft an updated version of the Arecibo Message — a radio message sent into space 44 years ago to draw the attention of aliens — and they wanted the ...

What would happen if aliens contacted us? It's a longstanding question that now has at least a partial answer after a transmission designed to mimic correspondence from an extraterrestrial ...