The string of letters was unmistakable — an anomaly, perhaps even a message from an alien civilization ... in the margin: ...

Now, new analysis of the so-called WOW! signal has revealed that it might have been caused by a hugely powerful laser slamming into Earth. Experts say this was not the first salvo of an alien ...

The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way ...

When the data was analyzed later, an astronomer’s marginal exclamation of the extraordinarily powerful but vanishingly brief blip would give the signal its forever name: the Wow! Signal.

Wow!' radio signal In 1977, an astronomer looking for alien life in the night sky above Ohio spotted a radio signal so powerful that he excitedly wrote 'Wow!' next to his data. The 72-second blast ...