Over a year ago, we received a signal from Mars—an encoded message from Europe’s Martian orbiter, picked up by three observatories on Earth. The contents of this simulated alien message, crafted by an ...

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 ...

“Alien Trespass” doesn’t intrude enough in the movie territories it occupies. It’s not funny or kitschy enough for satire and not scary or exciting enough for simulation. The thriller/comedy is meant ...

Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing themselves — and its key ingredient is a common amino acid that’s found in ...