Messages received from aliens could ruin life on Earth, scientists warn

Messages sent by aliens from space could destroy life as we know it on Earth if we're not careful about how we read them, scientists have warned. A new paper explores how we might read and understand a message that came to us from space. And it finds that it would be impossible to know that a message was dangerous before we opened it. In fact, the messages are so dangerous that it would be safest to simply discard them without ever reading them, scientists have warned. From the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry W. Virts took this photograph of the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. Gulf Coast at sunset This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater.