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 ...

“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, ...

Incredible but true! A Harvard astrophysicist puts forward a startling hypothesis: comet 3I/ATLAS could be an alien ...

How do you study the invisible?” This was the challenge the scientists at the ESA faced during the early days of December ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

The first signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, according to David Kipping's Eschatian Hypothesis, are likely to be ...

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

Scientists warn humanity that the first contact with an alien civilisation may be loud, chaotic and extreme, potentially ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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