The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...

Astrophysicists have developed a new theoretical model that could be used to estimate how likely ... the number of detectable ...

Its parameters included the rate of yearly star formation in the Milky Way, the fraction of stars with planets orbiting them and the number of worlds that could potentially support life. By comparison ...

Our Solar System is located within a low-density region known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This bubble is filled with a ...

We share the latest photo selected as AP's Picture of the Week winner, taken by you - the readers! The post AP Picture of the ...

Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...

This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

People in the central United States were amazed Saturday evening when they saw a bright fireball blaze across the night sky.

A new study suggests galaxies in the early universe appear much larger and brighter than expected, precisely as predicted by ...

So far, this season of Natsume's Book of Friends has been gentle and nostalgic. But this latest episode reminded me that it ...