A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

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Authorities said the suspected gunman first opened fire on the street. Authorities said three people suffered minor injuries, including an officer, when a man opened fire at the sheriff's office in ...

Authorities said three people, including a law enforcement officer, suffered minor injuries after a man opened fire at the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office in northern Idaho on Friday afternoon.

GLENDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — The all-clear has been given after reports of a possible active shooter on Luke Air Force Base on Friday morning. Officials with Luke AFB - 56th Fighter Wing posted on ...

Law enforcement officials in Providence, Rhode Island, on Wednesday confirmed that witnesses' description of the gunman in the Brown University shooting matches the images they have released of the ...

As the hunt for the Brown University shooter enters its fifth day, students and others are increasingly vexed and frightened that the killer remains at large and the motive is obscure. “How can they ...

“I can’t think of a single incident where the shooter was able to walk away and be completely unknown and still be at large four days later,” a Roger Williams University professor said. PROVIDENCE — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emily Blunt in Disclosure Day. (Universal Pictures) What would you do if you discovered that aliens were real, and a lot closer ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...