Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One evening last year, when his newborn daughter was small enough to hold with one arm, René Heller reached for a book to occupy ...

We hoped extraterrestrials could decode the plaque attached to the Pioneer spacecraft in the 1970s. Would we be able to figure out theirs? A recent paper claiming that a comet was the source of SETI’s ...

Imagine the day when we finally receive a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence, only to find that there’s a message embedded within. Given that we don’t speak the same language, how could we ...

One evening last year, when his newborn daughter was small enough to hold with one arm, René Heller reached for a book to occupy his mind while he rocked her to sleep. Heller, an astrophysicist at the ...