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 ...

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The bright red object, known as Scholz's star, travelled through the outer reaches of our solar system in the Oort Cloud region 70,000 years ago. It is the closest a star has ever come to our solar ...

The SETI Institute has claimed intelligent alien civilisations could survive on strange "heaven and hell" planets once thought to be totally uninhabitable. Extraterrestrial hunters have expanded their ...

If any film needed a Red Band trailer it's this one... Following on from Prometheus was always on the cards when the 2012 film left us with more questions than answers. All eyes are on director Ridley ...

When a thunderstorm recently lit up the night sky, cameras captured towering red shapes that looked uncannily like glowing jellyfish hanging above the clouds. The images raced across social media, and ...

NASA has long maintained that it has found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life, but a newly resurfaced image from Mars has reignited wild speculation. The photograph, captured by the ...