I promise it's not an alien.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.

This video takes viewers on a cinematic voyage to some of the most extraordinary and extreme planetary systems discovered in ...

The discovery bemused residents of a small town in northeastern Australia. The objects appear to be junk from a space launch, ...

Sadly, we don't think aliens were involved in this particular space balls incident.

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

Brian Johnson, who has died aged 86, was an Oscar-winning visual effects maestro and modelling specialist who contributed significantly to the look of modern science fiction.