This stack composite photo taken with an intelligent astronomical telescope shows the comet C/2025 R3 in the sky over China's ...

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 ...

Comets have played an interesting role in the history of astronomy. Since antiquity, many cultures saw them as omens or ...

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 ...

Based on evidence collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have found that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be up to 12 billion years old! Alien comet 3I/ATLAS wowed us as it passed ...

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 ...

Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas, now heading back into deep space, showed no evidence of alien technology after extensive radio observations by SETI researchers. Astrobiology Web SETI scanned 3I/Atlas for ...

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, ...