Startled by the discovery, Ehman encircled the letters in red ink and scribbled a single word in the margin: “Wow!” And so, ...

The source of the iconic Wow! signal has been a mystery to science for nearly 50 years. A group of researchers has been ...

For over 100 years, scientists have been hell-bent on talking to aliens, and new technology could give that hunt a boost.

In 1977, a mysterious 72-second space signal was detected. Was it aliens? Explore the Wow! Signal. In 1977, astronomers detected the Wow! Signal, a mysterious 72-second radio burst from deep space ...

When the data was analyzed later, an astronomer’s marginal exclamation of the extraordinarily powerful but vanishingly brief blip would give the signal its forever name: the Wow! Signal.

Luckily, a chance observation nearly 50 years ago has provided just that. The so-called Wow! Signal, much discussed but only occasionally and somewhat informally studied, has provided a guidepost ...

The Wow! signal was first detected in 1977 by astronomer Jerry Ehman using Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope. It was an extraordinarily strong radio signal lasting 72 ...

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