Rocky, the adorable alien creature in Project Hail Mary, lives in relatively close proximity to the home world of an iconic ...

Around 70,000 years ago, a small, reddish star came near our solar system and disturbed comets and asteroids – just when modern humans were beginning to leave Africa. The star – Scholz’s star – named ...

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This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond the Solar System's borders. That star is Fomalhaut, a mere cosmic baby at ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

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New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...