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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

From societies without money to profiteering aliens, the world of Star Trek has more to say about economics than you might ...