"A mystery like this is sort of par for the course at this stage of the Voyager mission," said Suzanne Dodd, project manager for Voyager 1 and 2 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a statement. The classic 1979 sci-fi horror film "Alien" was advertised with the memorable tagline, "In space ...

The desire to contact intelligent life on other planets is much older than the UFO craze and the Search for extra-terrestrial intelligence movement. Several 19th century scientists contemplated how we might communicate with possible Martians and Venusians. In fact, as history shows, ideas for ...