Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial civilisations. People around the world have wished for the day we discover an ...

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 ...

A study has highlighted what meeting an alien civilisation for the first time would be like. David Kipping's research article titled "The Eschatian Hypothesis" presents a hypothesis, according to ...

Columbia University professor David Kipping predicts humanity's first alien encounter will be with a rare, "loud" technosignature from an unstable civilization. His "Eschatian Hypothesis" suggests ...