Scientists say aliens are not hiding in Area 51. Experts believe life may exist on distant planets with water and the right ...

The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its massive under-ice liquid water oceans. It also displays water vapor plumes ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's alien life closer to home — within the bounds of our solar system? The ...

Billions of years ago, while the solar system was still young, a massive object may have drifted into it. It's not a spaceship, but it is an alien visitor in its own right—a colossal interstellar body ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS dramatically brightened after passing the Sun, with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb warning it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a sigh ...

There may be 19 asteroids in orbit around the sun that come from somewhere else entirely. If true, we could visit an alien 'world' without ever leaving the confines of the solar system. Share on ...

The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...

Astronomers discovered the TRAPPIST-1 system, a family of tightly packed planets swarming a red dwarf star, about eight years ago. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...