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 ...

“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, ...

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

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

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

It may take less than 1,000 years for an advanced alien civilization to destroy its own planet with climate change, even if it relies solely on renewable energy, a new model suggests. When ...

ourselves to the Milky Way galaxy, which is the galaxy that contains the solar system, it is said that there are 40 billion planets located in the habitable zone where life is likely to be born. Given ...

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 ...

In context: Radio waves from distant galaxies are too faint to provide meaningful data for potential space observations. However, a sufficiently advanced alien civilization could harness energy in ...