Tantalising ‘signal’ appears to have come from Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun Astronomers behind the most extensive search yet for alien life are investigating an intriguing radio wave ...

Conspiracy theorists have been left fearing an alien invasion or even the apocalypse after a spectacular image captured beams of light shooting into the night sky. The intriguing picture shows blue ...

A Nasa plan to beam Earth’s location into outer space could inadvertently trigger an alien invasion, Oxford scientists have warned. The binary-coded ‘Beacon In The Galaxy’ message will broadcast ...

An ambitious, student-run hunt for intelligent aliens is underway. The Trillion Planet Survey has begun scanning the huge Andromeda galaxy, as well as our own Milky Way, for beams of light that could ...

In the last decade, the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, one of the world’s most powerful telescopes, has spent hours staring at the night sky in search of exoplanets and accumulating huge amounts of data ...

An amateur astronomer was gazing at the stars through her telescope when she noticed something bizarre. Just past her sighting of the moon, Paula Gilley could see Saturn. Article continues below ...

Fast radio bursts could be coming from 'extragalactic light sails' powering advanced alien spacecraft, scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics have said. While the notion seems ...

If intelligent alien civilizations do exist, scientists think they could be using powerful flashlights to communicate with us. Astronomers have started to explore the idea that aliens could be trying ...

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LOCALS were left completely baffled after huge beams of light were spotted from miles away. The huge rays filled the skies last night leaving residents in Fife joking that aliens had invaded. Locals ...