The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more natural source.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a series of papers, astronomers have compared the "Wow!" signal to similar radio signals detected at Big Ear Observatory in ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

Computers at the the Big Ear radio telescope would translate radio signals into letters and numbers. Astronomer Jerry Ehmann scribbled "Wow!" next to the sequence 6EQUJ5, which encoded the extremely ...