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 ...

US congressman Tim Burchett recently claimed that aliens have visited Earth and that they made contact with humans.

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 ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...