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

European scientists have revealed that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured in unprecedented detail by the European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft on 6 November 2025, when the mission was en ...

In 'Project Hail Mary,' a human and an alien figure out how to cooperate across space. In real life, we can't see that fellow ...

Scientists believe turbulent “space weather” around distant stars could be scrambling potential alien signals before they ...

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 ...