Before you break open the dictionary to grapple with terms such as kilohertz, plasma waves or the heliopause, there's a fundamental aspect of space exploration that still can make a 73-year-old ...

During comet 3I/ATLAS's closest approach to Earth, the Breakthrough Listen project attempted to search the interstellar ...

Unlike YR4, finding earlier observations of 3I/ATLAS to model where it might have come from was easier said than done. During its July 1, 2025 detection, the interstellar object happened to be moving ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will fly by our planet at a safe distance of 1.8 astronomical units (roughly 167 million miles or ...

Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation. The results of this survey, called the Star Formation ...

The project is led by Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who argued that interstellar object ‘Oumuamua might be an alien probe. Reading time 4 minutes A new project seeks to uncover evidence of aliens, ...

The livestream will now begin Friday at 11 p.m. EST, Dec. 19 (0400 GMT on Dec. 20), weather permitting, after rain prevented ...

Humanity's fascination with the unknown is a timeless impulse, rooted in curiosity and the desire to push boundaries, uncover mysteries, and open doors to new frontiers. What were once represented by ...

Amazon MGM Studios has released the official trailer and poster for Project Hail Mary, the upcoming adaptation of the novel by Andy Weir. The film is scheduled to open in theaters on March 20, 2026.