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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Many leading scientists believe there’s a genuine possibility that the first evidence of extra-terrestrial life may soon be detected. First Contact: An Alien Encounter offers up an exploration of what ...