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

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

Columbia University professor David Kipping predicts humanity's first alien encounter will be with a rare, "loud" ...

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

Scientists first notice cosmic objects that have a loud signature and a huge presence in the universe. There is either ...

In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

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