In 2014, for example, researchers argued that the illustrations of plants in the manuscript could help decode the text’s strange characters. In 2011, a self-proclaimed “ prophet of God ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been going for over 40 years, with radio telescopes around the world listening in for possible alien messages.

Here’s how we could begin decoding an alien message using math. ... But if E.T. sent us such a string, how could we Earthlings even begin to decode it? A new mathematical approach proposes a way.

Stay sharp! You may be needed to help decode a message from intelligent aliens someday. The work of professional linguists, mathematicians and scientists "is probably not going to be enough" to ...

Now, a group of scientists will test our ability to decode such communications when an “alien” transmission from Mars reaches Earth later this week. The transmission, of course, isn’t ...

US researchers said their AI-powered decoder was able to accurately translate a person's thoughts into text roughly half the time.