In July 2025, astronomers spotted something remarkable passing through our Solar System, an object that had not come from anywhere nearby. Called 3I/ATLAS, it was travelling so fast and on such an ...

The odds of there being another intelligent life form in the Milky Way are pretty good given the billions of stars. But we ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...

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K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life, so astronomers conducted an unusually ...

Strange interstellar comet speculated to be alien spacecraft is older than Solar System - Scientists say comet represents preserved fragment of ancient planetary system ...

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...

Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star as part of the Next ...

Astronomers have sharply revised down the mass of nearby super Earth GJ 3378b, dramatically improving its prospects as a ...