In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an ...

Researchers used the Green Bank Telescope to study the interstellar comet and found that it exhibits typical cometary behavior, with no unusual features detected ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals ancient secrets and strange chemistry as the largest object of its kind ever tracked.

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

3I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar ...

Did an alien spacecraft just fly by Earth? That’s the question a lot of people, including Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, are asking right now. A massive interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS which ...

An astrophotograph of the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS highlights its green coma and a wandering blue-tinted ion tail. (Copyright Victor Sabet and Julien De ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after decades of space probes, meteorite analysis, radio telescopes, and UFO ...

The City of Boston handed out more than 4.5 million needles to drug users during the first four-year term of Mayor Michelle Wu, as part of her administration’s harm-reduction approach to tackling the ...