When it comes to sci-fi, few names carry the same weight as Ridley Scott, who is single-handedly responsible for some of the most influential films of all time. One of the first that immediately comes ...

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Interstellar asteroid Oumuamua arriving from Pleiades star cluster. Oumuamua 3D model: Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesse According to NASA, ‘Oumuamua is the first known interstellar object to visit our solar ...

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With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy—with every new advanced telescope, we ...

Astronomers have sharply revised down the mass of nearby super Earth GJ 3378b, dramatically improving its prospects as a ...

A comet screaming in from another star system carried alien ice ratios never seen before. What scientists found inside its spinning nucleus is reshaping how we picture worlds beyond our sun.

In July 2025, astronomers spotted something remarkable passing through our Solar System, an object that had not come from ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes an alien with a shell of oxidized minerals, two circulatory systems, ...