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

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

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

Out of the limelight, theoretical physicists continue to seek a mathematical model that can explain the universe's particles ...

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

Ahead of BYU's crucial matchup against Arizona State on Saturday, The Daily Universe sent students to Tempe to cover the ...

In an underground lab in a mountainous region of Italy that contains the coldest temperatures known to exist in the universe, ...

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

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

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 ...