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A new preprint from David Kipping, assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University, has suggested that our first contact with aliens will likely be atypical, and particularly bleak. Since at ...

A mysterious interstellar visitor sparks fears of alien contact as Baba Vanga's prophecy predicts a colossal spacecraft in 2026.

Might the world’s first verified contact with extraterrestrials not be a greeting signal but a scream of desperation from a dying world? Columbia University’s Dr. David Kipping has proposed what he ...