Scientists claim that first extraterrestrial contact will be a loud event impossible to ignore, not a subtle signal.

When it comes to Star Trek plots, every rule is made to be broken, whether it's about safely making out with attractive aliens or just not blowing up an entire civilization. These are some of the ...

What if the galaxy isn’t empty—just deliberately quiet? Some civilizations may have chosen secrecy over conquest, hiding in ...

Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent ...

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who built a lucrative career on his argument, rubbished by scientists and ...