Around 70,000 years ago, a small, reddish star came near our solar system and disturbed comets and asteroids – just when modern humans were beginning to leave Africa. The star – Scholz’s star – named ...

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Rocky, the adorable alien creature in Project Hail Mary, lives in relatively close proximity to the home world of an iconic ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

A giant cloud of vaporized metal may be hiding a secret planet or second alien sun in a nearby star system, a new study reveals. The mysterious cloud is up to 15,000 times wider than our planet, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. artist's impression of colliding asteroids For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar system.

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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...