Avi Loeb famously dubbed the October 27 perihelion event of 3I/ATLAS as a possible black swan event that would render all our material possessions and money useless if the object turned out to be a ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” who look suspiciously like us in rubber suits. The scientists who actually ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...