Humans are still searching for signs of intelligent alien life on other planets – but how would we react towards it if we ever did make contact? According to many of our cultural touchstones, there’s ...

For most people, the idea of alien contact has been shaped less by astronomy than by cinema. Films have taught us to expect intention: visitors who arrive either with open hands, as in E.T., or with ...

FIRST contact with an alien civilisation could destroy organised religion as we know it and cause global chaos, a former UFO investigator warned. Nick Pope, who probed the mysterious phenomena for the ...

“I hope that the first signs we have of life are when aliens come knocking on our doorstep and they’re friendly, but I have to be realistic,” said one of the scientists in First Contact: An Alien ...

A new hypothesis from Columbia University astrophysicist David Kipping suggests humanity’s first sign of alien life won’t be a greeting ...