It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

The most startling revelation regarding 3I/ATLAS concerns its age. Associate Professor Michele Bannister of the University of ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

These dust particles, finer than sand grains, originate from cometary tails and asteroid collisions, posing unseen risks to ...

The unusual behaviour of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has reignited online debate, but astronomers say the gaps in public ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

According to a new scientific hypothesis, alien civilisations may only become detectable at the moment of their collapse.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Astronomers warn humanity’s first alien detection may shock and surprise. Signals may not be friendly greetings but extreme and unmistakable. New research suggests initial contact could come from ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

As you're reading this, humanity is closer than it has ever been to confirming the existence of life in various forms on other planets. And I'm not talking here about Mars, the most likely suspect to ...