One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks ...
Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's alien life closer to home — within the bounds of our solar system? The ...
The search for life isn’t limited to distant exoplanets—some of the most promising candidates may be right here in our own solar system. Ancient Mars, the vast subsurface oceans of Europa and ...
Billions of years ago, while the solar system was still young, a massive object may have drifted into it. It's not a spaceship, but it is an alien visitor in its own right—a colossal interstellar body ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS dramatically brightened after passing the Sun, with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb warning it ...
For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...
There may be 19 asteroids in orbit around the sun that come from somewhere else entirely. If true, we could visit an alien 'world' without ever leaving the confines of the solar system. Share on ...
Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...
Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...
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The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the thing, point telescopes at it, argue about it. It's going to be fun." ...