When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Ken and Keli Chaffin A father-daughter team has decoded a mock "alien" message after a ...

One of the most famous messages ever beamed to space was a string of 1,679 bits sent by the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974. But if E.T. sent us such a string, how could we Earthlings even begin to ...

If you were an alien from TRAPPIST-1, a star some 40 light-years away from Earth, searching for signs of intelligent life, you might spot an odd burst of infrared light coming from our solar system.