Somewhere beyond the influence of the solar wind, more than 25.5 billion kilometers from the nearest human being, Voyager 1 ...

The repeating signal was traced to a massive spiral galaxy around 500 million light-years away. Researchers hope that by tracing the origin of these mysterious bursts, they can determine what caused ...

Last fall, a colleague of Sofia Sheikh’s posted a message in her group’s Slack channel, where members of the Breakthrough Listen Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) collaboration talk ...

Strange signals known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most intriguing mysteries of modern astronomy, so the more of them we can locate, the closer we get to figuring what causes them. Now ...

In a galaxy far, far away, a single radio signal, emitted by one of the universe’s earliest atoms, began its long journey into the void. Now, 8.8 billion years later, that signal has been captured by ...

Researchers with the Breakthrough Listen project have detected a curious signal originating from Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. The signal has been designated as a possible alien ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have detected a mysterious radio signal, described as "very ...

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Mysterious radio signals from space have been known to repeat, but for the first time, researchers have noticed a pattern in a series of bursts coming from a single source half a billion light-years ...