Barack Obama says aliens are real but denies secret bases, sparking debate over conspiracies and presidential secrets.

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NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope mission viewed 3I/ATLAS in December 2025, when researchers believed the brightening occurred due to a phenomenon associated with comets as they vent water, carbon ...

According to the US billionaire, this will require building factories on the Moon and launching AI space exploration satellites using mass drivers ...

"I really wanna see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space. Just going like 'shoom, shoom,' just one after the other." ...

To date, over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered using telescopes on the ground and in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

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

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Frank is an astrophysicist exploring our place in the Cosmos. As a practicing astrophysicist and science communicator I see ...

This image presents a grid of color-enhanced astronomical observations, each depicting a circumstellar disc—structures of dust and gas surrounding stars. Every square in the grid represents a ...