When ET phones, don’t pick up. Scientists have outlined a set of protocols for responding to extraterrestrial contact, ...

For decades, scientists have scanned the stars for even the faintest whisper of intelligent life. Now, with fresh government ...

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

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

How Radio Astronomy Helps Us See the Invisible Cosmos," astrophysicist Emma Chapman describes the hidden corners of space that only radio waves can reveal — and makes the case for contacting aliens.

The man who claims a comet is an alien spaceship has claimed alien contact with Earth will be confirmed by 2030. Theoretical physicist Avi Loeb has been leading speculation that the so-called 3I/ATLAS ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...

Spaceships. That’s all I’m asking for. Just one actual stinking spaceship. I’d also take an actual alien body—I’ve been told that the government has some of them as well. Instead, the first “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 ...

reports of alien abductions and recovered memory syndrome or studies that don't reach traditional levels of significance. But neither controversial phenomena nor potentially illuminating but ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...