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Earth may have debris from alien star systems trapped in its orbit, new research suggests

A new study questions if our planet could capture rocky and icy visitors from outside the solar system — and how scientists could spot them.

LiveScience · May 29, 2023

JWST eyes new asteroid belt in Fomalhaut

The new space telescope is so powerful that it can spot not merely exoplanets, but distant asteroid belts as well

Salon · May 10, 2023

Pentagon official says UFOs could be “dandelion seed” probes from an alien mothership

A Pentagon official, Sean Kirkpatrick, in charge of the secretive military unit tasked with studying UFOs, made the claims in a draft paper

Daily Mirror · Apr 15, 2023

Harvard physicist plans expedition to find ‘alien artefact’ that fell from space

Avi Loeb organizing $1.5m search to Papua New Guinea to look for interstellar object that crashed into ocean in 2014

The Guardian - US · Mar 24, 2023

New Study Proposes Why an Interstellar Object Suddenly Accelerated — And It’s Not Aliens

A recent study proposes a non-alien explanation for interstellar object Oumuamua's weird behavior in 2018.

Inverse · Mar 22, 2023

Water existed before the sun, study says

What the prevalence of water in solar systems tells us about the potential of life

Salon · Mar 15, 2023

Astronomers eye a "runaway" black hole

Astronomers have long predicted that stray supermassive black holes might occasionally run amok in the cosmos

Salon · Mar 1, 2023

Why aliens wouldn't spy with balloons

Astronomers weigh in on the latest balloon conspiracy theory

Salon · Feb 16, 2023

The planet down the block is a lot

Just 31 light-years away from Earth, Wolf 1069b is among the nearest and most likely to be habitable exoplanets

Salon · Feb 8, 2023

Groundhog Day's astronomical roots

Groundhog Day is what's known in astronomy as a "cross-quarter day." Here's what that means

Salon · Feb 2, 2023