Scientists have just completed an extensive search for signs of alien communications technology in the Milky Way's 'solar system 2.0'. Penn State astronomers and scientists at the SETI Institute, ...

The glowing atmosphere of a strangely giant alien world could help solve mysteries of not just how it formed, but how our own solar system arose, scientists say. The exoplanet discovery comes from the ...

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 ...

Asteroid experts at São Paulo State University's Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences have identified 19 space rocks of interstellar origin. The space rocks are classed as Centaurs - ...

A new UK-built spacecraft hopes to unravel the secrets of the mysterious planet when it blasts off later this month MERCURY, the tiny planet closest to the sun, has long remained a mystery. But it’s ...

Kepler scientists team up with Google AI specialists to detect eighth planet orbiting distant star Scientists on Nasa’s Kepler mission have spotted an eighth planet around a distant star, making it ...

WHAT are the billions of stars and planets beyond our solar system up to? Do they behave like ours or are we a freak of nature? While definitive answers are far from nailed down, a recent deluge of ...

Remember that strange solar system that could have been home to an 'alien megastructure'? Well it turns out that the sensible theory that was supposed to disprove the 'alien megastructures' has now ...

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FOUR planets orbiting a distant star were discovered last April thanks to “citizen scientists” all over the world and a new paper reveals the fascinating discoveries of the alien solar system. The ...

Extraterrestrial investigators often claim to have spotted strange cigar-shaped craft zooming through the skies of Planet Earth. Now a genuine visitor from outer space has been shown to have a similar ...

Alien life may be hiding much closer to home than science fiction would have us believe, according to a particle physicist and dark matter researcher Dr Sarah Alam Malik, who argues that Saturn's ...