The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

Scientists have issued a new blueprint for the day Earth receives a message from an alien civilization. Released Friday, the eight-point plan lays out how researchers should handle a potentially world ...

As the footage continues to play on various news channels across the world, Hugo’s team bring a mysterious guest to the KCXE.

Here’s another example: the alien Message in Stanislaw Lem’s His Master’s Voice. It contains instructions for making a substance. When scientists make it, it looks quasi-biological, like protoplasm, ...

The title of Disclosure Day tells you everything you need to know. In Steven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi blockbuster, there’s never any question of whether extraterrestrial life exists (it does) or ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more natural source. In a series of papers, astronomers have compared the "Wow!

Roadside Picnic, by the Strugatsky brothers. At Paul Gilster’s recommendation, I read the Strugatsky brothers' novel Roadside Picnic. It definitely had terrific moments: the mysterious, bizarre Zone ...