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

Scientists updated first contact protocols for 2026, requiring multiple verification steps and UN consultation before ...

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

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

More than 1,000 scientists have quietly updated the world's post‑detection protocols for alien contact, doubling down on the ...

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 ...

It starts with a signal. Faint, strange, and unlike anything humanity has ever recorded. Within hours, it escalates into an event that changes the course of history as an alien arrival on Earth ...

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 ...