The search for life isn’t limited to distant exoplanets—some of the most promising candidates may be right here in our own solar system. Ancient Mars, the vast subsurface oceans of Europa and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...

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

Some 70,000 years ago, when humans and Neanderthals shared the planet, an alien star streaked through the outer edges of our solar system and jostled its contents, astronomers say. In a study of ...