“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

However, a new study available on the arXiv preprint server introduces a compelling idea about how we might first encounter an alien civilization. David Kipping, an astronomer at Columbia University, ...

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

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

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

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

Scientists warn humanity that the first contact with an alien civilisation may be loud, chaotic and extreme, potentially ...

Why 3I/ATLAS Is Being Compared to a Spaceship Engine in New XRISM Images New findings indicate that the first interaction between humans and extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) may not align with the ...