The Local Hot Bubble was first suggested over 50 years ago, with scientists theorising that a series of supernovas - massive ...

This was the formula that American astronomer Dr Frank Drake came up with in the 1960s to calculate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilisations in our Milky Way galaxy. More than 60 years ...

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

The Methuselah star is the oldest star in the universe, estimated to be 16 billion years old. Read to follow the discussion ...

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 ...

(As a side note with a faith connection, another historical name for the Milky Way has been the Way of St. James.) Now we ...

(As a side note with a faith connection, another historical name for the Milky Way has been the Way of St. James.) Now we think of it as “our” galaxy, because astronomers have discovered that it is ...

Astrophysicists have developed a new theoretical model that could be used to estimate how likely it is for intelligent alien ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Recently, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics made a surprising discovery within the LHB.

Millions of years ago several supernova explosions led to the creation of a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot ...