Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf ...

The Alien tabletop RPG's latest edition adds plenty of new rules and playstyles to your armory - but they're not going to ...

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...

Astronomers have been scanning the skies for alien radio signals for decades, but so far they’ve heard nary a peep (with one possible exception). But according to a recent study, that could be because ...

A visitor is hurtling through the void, a silent, ancient vagabond from an alien star system, and by the end of the week, it will make its closest ever approach to Earth. This is no ordinary comet; it ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook To understand this new power, you first have to get to grips with the distant future of the Star ...

Rings of comets have been discovered around 74 alien star systems, revealing not only the existence of trillions of icy exocomets, but also the source of most of the water in these systems. The ...

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 ...