Scientists updated first contact protocols for 2026, requiring multiple verification steps and UN consultation before announcing alien discoveries or sending replies.

The title of Disclosure Day tells you everything you need to know. In Steven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi blockbuster, there’s never any question of whether extraterrestrial life exists (it does) or whether we’ve made contact with it (we have).

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is being visited by creatures from light-years away.

When ET phones, don’t pick up. Scientists have outlined a set of protocols for responding to extraterrestrial contact, including a bizarre directive to refrain from answering cosmic correspondence. Adopted by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA),

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 have enough common ground for that to even be possible?

Experts stress need for transparency while aiming to prevent premature announcements and protect scientists

Recently released FBI documents from 71 years ago detailed claims that aliens sent messages to members of one of the oldest UFO organizations in the U.S. The recently uncovered files were part of a massive, never-before-seen tranche of UFO disclosure ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’ The moment has been imagined a thousand times. As astronomers comb the cosmos with their powerful telescopes, they spot something that ...