When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/SMA/ L. Matrà et al. Rings of comets have been discovered around 74 ...
The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a ...
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet ...
To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, a new paper suggests. A few known star systems might fit the bill. When ...
The astronomical community is abuzz over a newly discovered "interstellar object," only the third of its kind ever seen, which is currently shooting toward us on a one-way trip through the solar ...
I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object ...
Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. An explosion seen in the cosmos in the early 1600s may actually be an ...