Humanity has already sent five spacecraft on trajectories that will eventually carry them beyond the Solar System, demonstrating that technologically advanced civilisations can launch interstellar ...

Strange interstellar comet speculated to be alien spacecraft is older than Solar System - Scientists say comet represents preserved fragment of ancient planetary system ...

Based on evidence collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have found that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be up to 12 billion years old!

The universe is at it again; scientists have been baffled by a discovery that turns all the knowledge they have on planetary systems on its head. Scientists have discovered an alien solar system ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was initially thought to have formed between three and 10 billion years ago, but researchers have now found that it could be ...

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 ...

This ‘really fun space rock’ is only the third interstellar object to be observed. Where is it heading and can stargazers see it? An object that came from outside our solar system is hurtling towards ...