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Former President Barack Obama went viral by saying aliens were real over the weekend. He's now trying to walk back the claim.

The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...

A Harvard scientist has suggested that our Solar System may be far more crowded with interstellar objects than anyone realized.

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Scientists have finally discovered how amino acids essential for life formed on the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu.

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The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.