Scientists have rewritten global 'first contact' protocols for how to confirm and announce the discovery of alien ...

Alien first-contact stories are a classic of science fiction, and they’re all the more fascinating because they can feel like ...

Do not shout ‘alien!’” Amid surge of public interest in UFOs or UAP, one group updated its rules for how news of ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Our first contact with extraterrestrials is likely to be when their entire civilisation is in its final moments of total collapse. According to a top scientist, the first aliens we detect will be ...

A new preprint from David Kipping, assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University, has suggested that our first contact with aliens will likely be atypical, and particularly bleak. Since at ...