The Arecibo message, beamed from Earth in 1974, was sent as 1,679 bits that created an image 23 pixels wide and 73 pixels tall (color added here to show the parts of the message). Johannes Rössel ...

Without any further guidance, he asked his students to see if they could decode it. There were 29791 0's and 1's, which they soon figured out could be divided into a cube of 31x31x31.

More than a year after launching the multidisciplinary art project "A Sign in Space," conceived by SETI Artist in Residence Daniela De Paulis, a father-daughter team has successfully decoded the ...