The first fast radio burst that beats at a steady rhythm

You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Small moves Ellie, small moves

Just to clear the air (or space), aliens are closer to the bottom of the probability list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar

It is 500 million light years away. So whoever sent that (assuming it was a sentient being) is 500 million years old now....

Another sensationalist headline from Vice.

This is the first known periodic fast radio burst source, and that's cool, but it's not sending signals "to Earth".

Yeah! Though the title got me to read the article out of interest, so it worked?

Scientists: due to alignment of unknown/ crazy factors, we can detect evenly spaced radio waves coming from a nearby galaxy.

Vice: aliens are sending us frequent messages :)

Ok, we've replaced the headline with a substring of the subtitle.

I mean, technically it is sending signals to earth, just not in the way this headline suggests.