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 ...

A newly discovered interstellar object is moving through the solar system at around 137,000 mph, and it did not take long for ...

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 ...

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 could have arrived on Earth in ancient collisions with rocks from other solar systems (Image: Hubble/Princeton) Life could have arrived on Earth in rocks from other solar systems, scientists ...

Rare interstellar visitor the size of Manhattan carries secrets from distant star system Controversial 'comet': An artist's rendition of Comet 3I/ATLAS as it rockets through our Solar System at 58 km ...

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 ...

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 ...