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A powerful signal has been spotted coming from the vicinity of a sunlike star, and now astronomers are trying to figure out what it means. In May 2015, researchers using a radio telescope in Russia detected a candidate SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) signal that seems to originate from HD 164595, a star system that lies about 94 light-years from Earth, the website Centauri Dreams reported over the weekend. The astronomers have not yet published a study about the detection; they plan to discuss it next month at the 67th Inteational Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico, according to Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster, who wrote that one of the team members for...

As a space agency engineer, the last thing you want to happen is to lose contact with one of your satellites. Such an incident could potentially mean years of work lost, and that not only relates to the blood, sweat and tears expended keeping the spacecraft in operation far from Earth, but also the massive amount of preparation needed to get the thing off the ground in the first place. In October 2014, the situation looked serious for NASA engineers working on the Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission when they lost touch with one of two sun-studying spacecraft eight years after launch. The breakdown occurred while NASA was testing a set of important procedures...

File photo - The prototype of the Allen Telescope Array, which aims to aims to seek out signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. (Reuters) If you are hoping to meet an alien then you may be in for a very long wait, according to astronomers at Coell University. The experts say that it could be 1,500 years before alien contact with Earth and will present their research at the American Astronomical Society’s meeting in San Diego Thursday. “We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place – but that doesn’t mean no one is out there,” said Coell student Evan Solomonides, who will present the research paper, in a statement. Related: Real-life 'X-Files'? CIA posts trove of UFO docu...

File photo - The prototype of the Allen Telescope Array, which aims to aims to seek out signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. (Reuters) If you are hoping to meet an alien then you may be in for a very long wait, according to astronomers at Coell University. The experts say that it could be 1,500 years before alien contact with Earth and will present their research at the American Astronomical Society’s meeting in San Diego Thursday. “We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place – but that doesn’t mean no one is out there,” said Coell student Evan Solomonides, who will present the research paper, in a statement. Related: Real-life 'X-Files'? CIA posts trove of UFO docu...

The relationship between Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen and an American suicide bomber in Syria was much “deeper” than previously understood by federal investigators, according to a govement source. Fox News was told the relationship as well as the Mateen case in general are "very complex" but would not go further, citing the sensitivity of the FBI investigation and classified information. The source said the bomber's retu to Florida in 2013 is under fresh scrutiny as well. Mateen’s name surfaced twice for FBI investigators in the run-up to the attack. After the first, full FBI investigation of Mateen concluded in March 2014, his name surfaced two months later in a second, separate FBI ...