Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting ...

From reports of bizarre alien sightings, to ancient paintings which appear to depict UFOs, many people believe advanced alien civilisations are out there. However, if this is the case, communication ...

A new book has revealed the best way to communicate with extraterrestrial life. This method is based on the idea that extraterrestrials are like humans. For years, humans have been trying to establish ...

Many scientists believe that alien civilisations exist. For them, the question is now whether we will encounter them in the near future or a very long time from now, rather than if at all. So let's ...

But by night, his work takes on a more out-of-this-world nature – he’s devising the methods we'll need to talk to aliens. Creating algorithms that can break down and understand languages on Earth, he ...

It all started with what Professor Paul Frommer now describes as a "fateful e-mail." The linguistics expert from the University of Southern California is the brains behind the language used by James ...