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The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

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

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Incredible but true! A Harvard astrophysicist puts forward a startling hypothesis: comet 3I/ATLAS could be an alien ...

An astrophotograph of the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS highlights its green coma and a wandering blue-tinted ion tail. (Copyright Victor Sabet and Julien De ...

The controversial Harvard astronomer is one of the main sources of the "alien mothership" hypothesis. This is what he thinks, ...