Back in the 1960s, Frank Drake, an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist, proposed an equation aimed at estimating the ...

At the ends of your toes are an evolutionary artifact of humans’ primate history, hiding in plain sight. Instead of sharp, ...

Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life.

However, "it will be exciting to employ the model to explore the emergence of life across different universes and see whether some fundamental questions we ask ourselves about our own universe ...

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they ...

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

The strength of dark energy in our universe is not optimized for forming stars, which means other universes might have a ...

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

Study co-author Professor Lucas Lombriser, of the University of Geneva, said: “It will be exciting to employ the model to explore the emergence of life across different universes and see whether ...