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A bombshell UFO report, the "alien junk" in our solar system, and more new clues about extraterrestrial life.

A bombshell UFO report, the "alien junk" in our solar system, and more new clues about extraterrestrial life.

On the grand cosmic scale, our little corner of the Universe isnt all that special – this idea lies at the heart of the Copernican principle. Yet theres one major aspect about our planet thats peculiar indeed: Our Sun is a yellow dwarf. 

Find all the stargazing resources you need for observing the sky tonight - star charts, daily calendars of celestial events, and astronomy podcasts.

The year space got sexy all over again

Light-years make measuring astronomical distances much more manageable.

If you wanted to travel to the stars -- and by that, I mean star systems beyond our own -- you'd better be prepared to take your sweet time. Even at the speeds the Apollo astronauts traveled to the Moon, it would take millions of years to reach even the next nearest star beyond our own, Proxima Centauri.

A recent model on how stars are formed adds weight to the hypothesis that most – if not all – stars are born in a litter with at least one sibling.

This discovery could have astronomers rethinking what we thought we knew about planetary formation. ...

Colonists from Earth head to the nearest star system in the Netflix series, but "nearest" is still extremely far away