A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a ...

Avi Loeb, a cosmologist who studied black holes and served as head of Harvard’s astronomy department until 2020, has been ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

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This documentary argues that alien life may be common, but contact could still be almost impossible because the universe ...

As for those salt clouds, the salt is not table salt or even Pink Himalayan Rock Salt, though that would go splendidly with ...

We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research ...

The United States government’s recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg ...

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained flying objects. These file dumps were the culmination of a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Astronomers studying the atmospheres of several intensely heated exoplanets uncovered an unexpected pattern that may reveal a ...