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

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

One proposed solution to the Fermi Paradox suggests that intelligent civilizations remain silent by necessity. Advanced ...

Some scientific breakthroughs may be lost to time due to scandal and redaction, while others are simply a case of waiting for ...

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 ...

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

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

I/ATLAS was first discovered on July 1, 2025, it has garnered much attention, including speculation, hopes and fears that it ...

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

The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn of the Century America," David Baron looked into one source of that ...