“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

We've all grown up dreaming of aliens landing on the Earth or laser beaming across the sky; well, either way, it's sci-fi and ...

There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive ...

Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping ...

In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

golden record that can decipher data with hints of mathematics and chemistry. It is hoped that it will become a kind of common language between the unknown extraterrestrial civilizations. A novel ...