10 September 2015
Ceres Occator crater: bright spots as you’ve never seen them before
... of an impact that exposed newer, brighter material below Ceres’ surface. Conspiracy theories suggesting the possibility of remnants of an alien civilisation were also fuelled by this strange feature on Ceres – but that is typical for any large-scale...
11 January 2016
Space Rock Legend David Bowie Dies Aged 69
... and the stars – the list is long and includes such hits as “The Prettiest Star”, “Loving the Alien”, “Starman”, “Spaceboy”, his “Serious Moonlight” tour, etc. The title track of his final album, “Blackstar” brings...
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...
