The scientist has outlined the 'potentially devastating and irreversible long-term impacts' of unknown organisms in space ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Once small enough, these technograins might gain a trip out of its host solar system by a solar wind that overcomes the star's gravity holding it back. These motes of dust are then free to roam the ...

If scientists sift through the Moon’s surface, we could find microscopic dust suggesting alien life, an Oxford astrophysicist suggested Breaking News Intern We may be able to find evidence of advanced ...

Pulverised technology from collapsed alien civilisations may lie scattered across the solar system, including on the Moon, a new study suggests. The likelihood of advanced aliens living at the same ...

“Disclosure” has become a cult word. It shouldn’t be, since all it means, technically, is to reveal something. But the new wave of alien conspiracy theorists have made “disclosure” into a teasingly ...

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 ...

A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

The Pentagon on Friday released a third batch of vintage classified files related to “flying saucers” and other unidentified anomalous phenomena — better known to most Americans as unidentified flying ...