Trump has ordered the release of UFO files. The real question isn’t what they contain—it’s how the uncertainty could affect ...

If we were to ever find alien life, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think.

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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Earth’s first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is likely to arrive as something hard to miss, not a quiet or subtle trace. That expectation matters now, because decades of discovery show ...

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 ...

If humans ever receive a message from intelligent aliens, the biggest challenge may not be how far away they are, but how to communicate at all. Our nearest star system is more than four light-years ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, according to a new study that could lead to new approaches in finding ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...