A strange interstellar comet discovered last year and speculated by a prominent astronomer to be an alien spacecraft could be older than our Solar System, according to a new study. The comet, first ...

A strange interstellar comet discovered last year and speculated by a prominent astronomer to be an alien spacecraft could be older than our Solar System, according to a new study. The comet, first ...

It was initially thought to have formed between three and 10 billion years ago, but researchers have now found that it could be even older, originating from an ancient planetary system nearly 12 ...

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 ...

Brazilians wake to fake alien attack alerts on 19 June after hackers slipped through a backdoor the FCC has spent years studying Paweł/Pixabay A hacker who breached Brazil's national emergency alert ...

At 80, SF author M John Harrison is producing some of his best work. He talks about finding his voice, alien intelligence and the advice from Iain Banks that still spurs him on Three years ago, in a ...

One year ago, on July 1 2025, astronomers discovered a fascinating new object moving through the Solar System. Detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), the object was ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a ruling that limits the use of a federal law to hold U.S. corporations liable for human rights abuses abroad when it dismissed a lawsuit that accused Cisco Systems ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems deep beneath its surface—despite the planet lacking the plate tectonics ...