Alien life may be hiding much closer to home than science fiction would have us believe, according to a particle physicist ...

Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically different from anything known to have ever formed around our sun ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks ...

Billions of years ago, while the solar system was still young, a massive object may have drifted into it. It's not a spaceship, but it is an alien visitor in its own right—a colossal interstellar body ...

A rare comet from another star system is revealing just how different alien solar systems may be from our own.

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Every time an interstellar object comes whizzing into our Solar System, it brings with it a certain intrigue. Where is it from? How did it form? Why ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

Our solar system appears beautifully organized, but its stability is actually the result of an incredibly delicate cosmic ...