Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the ...

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, ...