ALIEN MYSTERY as scientists detective SIGNAL coming from DEEP SPACE

A Canadian radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), has been on the hunt for alien signals for a week and have already picked up several strange radio bursts.

Scientists have been on the hunt for fast radio bursts, or FRBs, since they first detected one in 2007.

Since that first one was discovered, scientists have only found a few dozen more, but new research says these mysterious signals could be pinging around the universe every second.

Experts are still unsure exactly what these signals are, but what they do know is that they can emit as much energy in a second than the sun does in 10,000 years.

They are exceptionally difficult to study as they can last as little as a millisecond and there is no way to predict when they are coming.

Some experts says they are natural, such as exploding stars, while other scientists believe that they are extra-terrestrial signals which were intentionally sent Earth’s way.

The latest batch of mystery radio signals were picked up by Canadian telescopes and the researchers behind the new discovery say that every time an FRB is received, they help to unravel the mystery of them.

Patrick Boyle, author of the Astronomer's Telegram report and a project manager for CHIME, said: "These events have occurred during both the day and night, and their arrival times are not correlated with known on-site activities or other known sources.”

The FRBs also act as messengers across the universe, according to physicist Paul Scholz.

He said: “Because they propagate through a large portion of the universe, you can learn about the material that’s between galaxies using these events.

“Basically, like a little probe passing [through] the material between us and the source of it.”

Gamma ray bursts could be responsible (Image: GETTY)

Breakthrough Listen, a research institute on the lookout for alien signals, has previously refused to rule out the possibility of extraterrestrials.

Breakthrough wrote in a statement: “Attempts to understand the mechanism that generates FRBs have made this galaxy a target of ongoing monitoring campaigns by instruments across the globe.

“Possible explanations for FRBs range from outbursts from rotating neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields, to more speculative ideas that they are directed energy sources used by extraterrestrial civilisations to power spacecraft.”