Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will head the UAP Science Advisory Council established by the White House, the Pentagon, the ...

A strange class of comet could explain the enigmatic behavior of ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object—and even shed ...

For the first time in more than 15 years, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Search for Extraterrestrial ...

Last year, an interstellar traveler entered our solar system. Some speculated that it was an alien spacecraft, but it turned ...

A Harvard University cosmologist who has suggested alien life forms could be sailing into the solar system disguised as meteors is leading the Trump administration’s secretive new scientific advisory ...

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s ...

This series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the fragmenting comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was taken over three days (Picture: NASA, ESA, Dennis Bodewits (AU)/Cover Images) An interstellar ...

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An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar System and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, astronomers said Monday ...

Last summer, a NASA-funded asteroid impact warning system detected a mysterious object speeding through the solar system. Scientists determined the object had entered the solar system from deep space, ...

Researchers at the SETI Institute found no evidence of alien technology after analyzing radio signals from the object. 3I/ATLAS was the third comet ever discovered originating from outside our solar ...