On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, received the most powerful signal it would ever detect during its decades of observations. The signal lasted just 72 seconds, but ...

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In a groundbreaking observation, astronomers have detected the first ever radio signal from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, an object originating from outside our solar system. This unusual signal ...

A collaborative project dubbed “A Sign in Space” is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for simulating a message to Earth from intelligent aliens. The project involved beaming an encoded message ...