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

The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.

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

A new study explores this tantalizing idea. The idea of aliens hiding in a parallel universe — though seemingly absurd — is ...

Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe. Of course, there's Earth's magnetic field, which deflects dangerous cosmic ...

A group of scientists has just proposed a brand new equation aiming to figure out the probability of intelligent life ...

What’s the Roundest Object in the Universe? A view of the planet Venus transiting the sun. Both objects are almost perfectly ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

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

Astrophysicists from Durham University have developed a new model to estimate the likelihood of intelligent life forming in ...

Scientists working in an international collaboration have tracked how the structure of the cosmos has grown over the past 11 ...