Could aliens and fireflies communicate in the same way?

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Garth Battista captured this scene of fireflies in the Catskill Mountains on June 23, 2025. Garth wrote: “Mountaintop fireflies! One firefly’s path seems to be reaching for the dazzling stars of the Milky Way.” Thank you, Garth! A team of researchers led by the University of Arizona recently said that advanced alien civilizations might communicate with each other by using flashing signals similar to those of fireflies on Earth. Read on to see how aliens and fireflies might communicate in similar ways.