There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

Researchers have developed a new model to calculate the chance of aliens' existence in our universe. The possibility of other ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies - nearly as massive as the Milky Way ...

Astrophysicists developed a theoretical model that could be used to estimate how likely it is for intelligent life to emerge ...