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 ...

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

Scientists are working on an accurate way of calculating the probability of finding alien life elsewhere in the universe.

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

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Peering through telescopes, watching model meteors destroy model planets and playing dozens of informative games, ...