The hunt for intelligent life beyond Earth has quietly entered a more exacting phase, and one small, cool star has become a proving ground for how serious that search can be. TRAPPIST-1, a dim red ...

A visitor is hurtling through the void, a silent, ancient vagabond from an alien star system, and by the end of the week, it will make its closest ever approach to Earth. This is no ordinary comet; it ...

Scientists say the colour shift in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is due to gases in the comet's coma reacting to solar heat.

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