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 ...

The reason we haven’t heard from aliens could be remarkably simple: interstellar communication is hard, and turbulent plasma ...

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

Our Cosmic Consciousness residency artists daniela brill estrada, Bart Kuipers, and Julie-Michèle Morin, discuss an art-science collaboration that imagines how language might emerge from alien worlds.

South of Santa Cruz, where coastal waters meet the open Pacific, are the deep waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. It's home to an amazing array of creatures: over 300 marine mammal ...

Paul Bennewitz believed he found proof of alien communication near a U.S. air base. At first, the Air Force played along — even funded his research. But when he got too close to something real, they ...

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Studying how honeybees process information may help humans communicate with aliens, according to a new thought experiment. Although the ancestors of honeybees and humans diverged in evolution more ...

According to a recent study, advanced extraterrestrial communication may not rely on radio waves, but rather on subtle, repeated flashes of light. Surprisingly, fireflies could help us understand this ...