‘Is it aliens?’: how a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life
Scientists hope studies into Boyajian’s star could lead to enhanced techniques for identifying distant planetary civilisations
December 2022
If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next?
Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’
June 2020
Scientists say most likely number of contactable alien civilisations is 36
New calculations come up with estimate for worlds capable of communicating with others
March 2020
'All the data we need': Seti computing project paused after 20 years
Seti@home enlisted people’s computers to aid search for extraterrestrial intelligence
February 2020
The Guardian view on looking for aliens: friends in the sky?
Recent discoveries in space and Earth sciences have provided encouragement to searchers for distant civilisations
July 2018
First contact or false alarm? New Richter-like scale for alien signals
Rio 2.0 rates potential signs of extraterrestrial life from 0 to 10, with 10 equivalent to ‘an alien shaking your hand’
January 2018
Across the universe
No alien megastructure around mysterious 'Tabby's star', analysis shows
Stand down space cadets: there is (sadly) no alien megastructure around star KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby’s star
September 2017
Alien search detects radio signals from dwarf galaxy 3bn light years from Earth
Stephen Hawking’s Breakthrough Listen project picks up radio pulses that could be from black holes, neutron stars or, some speculate – UFO beacons
November 2016
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Arrival review – Amy Adams has a sublime word with alien visitors
Denis Villeneuve’s thrilling sci-fi epic, in which a linguistics expert is called on to speak for the human race, is daring, clever and touched with skin-crawling strangeness
September 2016
Why Stephen Hawking is light years from the truth about ‘dangerous aliens’
Seth Shostak
Hawking fears that if we made contact with unearthly beings, they could respond with hostility. It’s a bit late to worry about that
August 2016
Unanswered questions
Proxima b: could we live on this newly found planet – or could something else?
The announcement that scientists think they may have found a planet orbiting the star nearest to our sun is potentially big news – even if it would take 70,000 years to get there
February 2016
Science Weekly
Ben Miller on the search for alien life - podcast
Why are we so fascinated by the idea that we aren’t alone in the universe?
October 2015
Across the universe
‘Alien megastructure’ could explain mysterious new Kepler results
Strange signals from a distant star are defying natural explanation. There is a remote chance that they could be from an ‘alien megastructure’
September 2015
Send aliens modern messages of Earth's equality and diversity, say scientists
The UK entrants to a Breakthrough Initiative competition agree on one thing: any missive to extraterrestrials must be an up-to-date portrayal of humankind
July 2015
Science Weekly
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence - podcast
The most intensive ever search for alien life
June 2015
Pluto's moons tumble in orbit, Hubble measurements reveal
Analysis of ten years of data from the space telescope has revealed the unusual trajectories, and also suggests Pluto might in fact be a binary dwarf planet
February 2015
Alien search won't doom planet Earth, say scientists who want to contact ET
Fears over new Seti plan to repeatedly broadcast greetings to habitable planets for hundreds of years dismissed as paranoia
December 2014
20 innovations for 2015
Disaster Playground: how we would deal with a planet-killer asteroid?
French film-maker Nelly Ben Hayoun has created a multifaceted project looking at our emergency procedures in the event of a killer asteroid being discovered
September 2014
Asteroids: between a rock and a hard place
There have been recent near misses – an explosion over Russia, a mysterious crater in Nicaragua. But what would we do in the event of an actual meteor strike? Tom Lamont finds out
August 2014
The search for life beyond Earth is on, but are we ready for what we’ll find?
Philip Ball
Philip Ball: When we venture into space we don’t know what we’re looking for – unless it is ourselves
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