In June 2026, numerous Chinese news media outlets reported on updated international guidelines advising researchers not to independently respond to extraterrestrial signals. English-language news ...

For decades, scientists have searched the cosmos for evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth. A new study suggests that if extraterrestrial civilizations have attempted to communicate with us, there ...

To date, the search for alien intelligence, collectively known as SETI, has focused on more human-esque types of searches. These include radio signals, laser pulses or even physical megastructures ...

Humans should look to planetary alignments outside of the solar system when searching for signatures of extraterrestrial communications, scientists say. The nascent search for radio transmissions from ...

In the 2016 movie Arrival, water-dwelling extraterrestrials make an appearance on Earth. The main human character’s job is to learn how to communicate with the seven-tentacled extraterrestrials before ...