A simulated “alien” signal sent by a Nasa orbiter circling Mars has finally been cracked after months by a father-daughter duo, revealing the cosmic coded message. Nasa collaborated with SETI ...

The sudden silence of a veteran Mars spacecraft has turned a routine comet flyby into one of the most intriguing space ...

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 ...

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 civilizations could eavesdrop on our communications with our spacecraft and rovers, according to a new study – and we might be able to find them the same way. To tell a Mars rover to turn left ...

The MAVEN spacecraft – Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 December 2025 while passing behind the red planet in the normal course of its orbit. When MAVEN re ...

A father and daughter team based in the U.S. have decoded a mock "alien signal" beamed from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter a year ago — but the meaning of the extraterrestrial message remains a ...