In a world easily startled by sensationalism, Tyson offers a cool, gentle voice of reason amid the unchecked fascination with ...

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 ...

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 ...