Now, a new claim is drawing attention because it points to what could be the most extraordinary “unknown” of all. A British filmmaker says the Church may already be thinking about how it would respond ...

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Your phone buzzes with a breaking news alert: "Astronomers detect unusual signal from distant star system." Within hours, social media explodes with alien conspiracy theories, deepfake "evidence," and ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

When Christopher Columbus first came ashore in the Caribbean in 1492, he made first contact with what was, to him, an unfamiliar world. While his journey took place on ships rather than spacecraft, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we've wondered who, or what, might be looking back. Journalist Becky ...

In June 2026, numerous Chinese news media outlets reported on updated international guidelines advising researchers not to independently respond to extraterrestrial signals. English-language news ...