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

Scientists updated first contact protocols for 2026, requiring multiple verification steps and UN consultation before announcing alien discoveries or sending replies.

How the earth would respond to alien contact: humour, conspiracy and memes The BBC science docu-drama First Contact: An Alien Encounter imagined how the world would react if we made contact with ...

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

The concentrated effort to find evidence of alien life has so far failed to prove we are not alone in the universe. But scores of conspiracy theorists believe aliens are real and exist alongside ...

SCIENTISTS have shared some ways alien life could potentially contact Earth if they are truly out there. The quest for extraterrestrial life is easily one of the most fascinating facets of science – ...

ALIEN contact could ultimately “end life on Earth” and we shouldn’t seek to communicate with them as it risks “endangering mankind”, according to experts. Their fears come after it was revealed NASA ...

Derrel Sims, a private investigator and former CIA operative is among those who claim to have been abducted by aliens. And Mr Sims, who has 40 years’ experience in examining evidence of human-alien ...

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’ The moment has been imagined a thousand times. As astronomers comb the cosmos with ...

As it turns out, national public referendums can be a bit divisive. Which is probably why respondents to a study by Oxford University said a public referendum on whether to talk with aliens in the ...

This dramatisation of what would happen if we encountered aliens is full of talking heads shooting down the idea that there’s intelligent life out there. Way to wreck the premise… Boring has long been ...

Extraterrestrial aliens WILL make contact with the human race, but it might not be for another 1,500 years, a team of astronomers has predicted. The scientists performed a calculation based on the ...