19 September 2016
New research challenges ideas on how the Earth was made
... that had drifted to our corner of the Galaxy from elsewhere. As the cloud collapsed to form planets, these ‘alien’ dust grains will have then become incorporated into the material that coalesced to form the planets...
12 October 2016
Proxima Centauri reveals yet more intrigue as a cycle of dramatic sunspots is observed
... spots on our Sun but at least a full one-fifth of the star's surface is covered in spots at once. "If intelligent aliens were living on Proxima b, they would have a very dramatic view," says lead author of the research, Brad...
18 August 2017
A new Earth-like planet may have been found as close as 16 light years away
.... The team's findings were published this week in The Astrophysical Journal. "According to our calculations, this hypothetical alien world would probably have a mass between 1 to 15 Earth's masses," said the lead author Suman Satyal, UTA...
23 May 2018
First permanent extrasolar asteroid found near Jupiter
... System shown to have an extrasolar origin. Late last year, the news was alight with reports that an alien visitor in the shape of a dark, organic coated, highly-elongated (around 400 metres long) rocky object was...
29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
... late last year in November 2017. `Oumuamua, our planet’s first interstellar visitor shook up our idea of what an alien asteroid might look like. Its unusual shape caused a flurry of excitement, with some suggesting that the...
14 September 2018
AI helps find new pulses from mysterious FRB source
... this frequent flurry of radio flashes? Many theories abound, including of course that they could be a sign of alien technology from an advanced civilisation. Collecting information to study these mysterious signals is not a problem; the 5 hour...
