Hunting for alien civilizations isn't a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it's the business of combing ...

Our universe does host life, but it’s not the most optimal universe for life. Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe. Hidden information in maps of galaxies spread across the ...

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current ...

With 200 billion trillion (ish) stars in the universe and 13.7 billion years that have elapsed since it all began, you might be wondering where all the alien civilizations are at. This is the ...

There are many strange and mysterious locations in the universe that test our knowledge of physics and space. These places are absolutely amazing, with everything from strange planets to extreme ...

Now, in a remarkable new image, researchers captured one of these cosmic filaments connecting two galaxies from when the universe was just 2 billion years old. It's the most detailed image of an ...

"The LRGs from DESI are like a more recent picture of the universe, showing us how galaxies are distributed at varying distances," Kim says, likening the data to the universe's high school ...

A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe. Research led by the University of ...