According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

Fewer galaxies means fewer stars in the universe. Stars are essential for the emergence of life as we know it ... outflows that heat up and push gas outside galaxies. We then determined the ...

The search for life in the universe is always ongoing ... form of nutrient cycle would be required for organisms to exist outside of planets, writing: "Long-term, an additional consideration ...

Outside that ... life appear to be abundant in our solar system and the universe. What's more, a potential alien astronomer looking for life beyond their planet might pick up on signs of life ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more differences in temperature anywhere, which means thermodynamics shuts down, ...

Is the universe 'tuned' to support life, and ultimately us? Physicists Nemanja Kaloper and Alexander Westphal have proposed ways to test this Anthropic principle. (Image of deep star field from the ...

In Looking for Life in the Universe, Author Ellen Jackson and photographer Nic Bishop introduce readers to Dr. Jill Tarter, Chair Emeritus for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, and her thrilling, ...