As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

A Harvard scientist has suggested that our Solar System may be far more crowded with interstellar objects than anyone ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb suggests comet 3I/ATLAS may be an alien vessel seeding life, after NASA's SPHEREx spacecraft detected unexplained methane and organic chemicals on board.

A NASA spacecraft has discovered organic chemicals on 3I/ATLAS, which Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims raises the ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

This twist — that 3I/ATLAS' outer layers have been baked by the sun — does not derail our mission. It just makes the science ...

Far out in the dark between the stars, a small visitor is carving a path through our solar system and leaving behind patterns ...

Astronomers are tracking a visitor called 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed. The two previous instances were 1I/’Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. 3I/ATLAS is ...

By the time the rumours reached the 'alien probe' stage, 3I/ATLAS had already slipped past the Sun and was heading back into ...

January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could exist in principle in distant stellar systems. With the right engineering ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the ...