Professor Avi Loeb's new book, Extraterrestrial, tells the tale of how he 'Oumuamua may be humanity's first interstellar messenger.
Astronomers using a new technique may have not only found a super-Earth at a neighbouring star, but they may also…
In a new study, a pair of Harvard astrophysicists did the math on whether or not BLC1 is an extraterrestrial…
There’s a powerful scene in the movie “Contact” (one of my favs) where lead character Ellie Arroway is sitting among…
From its current position in the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons spacecraft recently conducted a parallax experiment that is not…
Our closest stellar neighbour is Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf star about 4.2 light years away from us. It's…
There is an Earth-sized planet only four light years from Earth. Whether it has life is yet to be known.
A new study by a team using data from the Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument, may have caught a direct…
A new study has shown how gas giants (like Proxima c) can exist around Red Dwarf suns, the most common…
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to us, at 4.37 light-years (about 25 trillion miles) away. In 2016, astronomers…