A newly discovered interstellar object is moving through the solar system at around 137,000 mph, and it did not take long for ...

A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024 is a rare, primitive space rock containing evidence of ancient water.

Some of the most common planets in our galaxy may be hiding far more water than scientists can currently detect—even with the ...

In a clip from the BBC’s Wonders of the Solar System, Brian Cox visits an ‘alien’ within a cave that’s a death trap for ...

The odds of there being another intelligent life form in the Milky Way are pretty good given the billions of stars. But we ...

Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...

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 ...

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...