Five years ago a very strange object—maybe a thousand feet long, oblong, shiny and fast—streaked across space, tens of millions of miles from Earth. Its course and speed indicated it had come from outside the solar system. A visitor from another star.
Team will search for evidence of extraterrestrial life by looking for advanced technology it may leave behind
Aliens? Or a chunk of solid hydrogen? Which idea makes less sense?
Simulations led to this new origin story for the first known visitor to our solar system
New observations show that 2I/Borisov looks like a comet, just what astronomers expected
After investigating the nature of a mysterious and apparently cigar-shaped object called ‘Oumuamua spotted in 2017 speeding through our solar system, astronomers remain uncertain over how to classify it, but are confident it is not an alien spaceship.
Some of today’s Scientists are pushing theories on how aliens are actually visiting us. Philip Defanco and his news team goes through the story.
The first meteor of interstellar origin has been discovered by scientists in the U.S., after a Harvard professor earlier found that an object seen over Papua New Guinea in 2014 likely came from a region of space beyond our solar system.
Possibilities for the interstellar object include a fluffy fractal and a comet skeleton
Mysterious object might be ‘a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization’
