Unlike our Moon, they can keep water in oceans liquid for more than 4 billion years.

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 ...

What can a piece of debris from another star tell astronomers about planets they may never see directly? The answer has changed dramatically since the first confirmed object from another star crossed ...

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 ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

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 ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely comes from the Milky Way's disc, as astronomers ...

A BOOZY comet has stunned scientists after they discovered the ‘alien’ rock is filled with alcohol. The mysterious interstellar comet is “bursting” with the substance like ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Astronomers have spotted something unusual in a comet passing through our Solar System. 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed interstellar visitor ever s.

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 ...