“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Blue Origin announced plans to lay off about 10% of its workforce — or more than 1,000 employees — nearly a month after the ...

In a groundbreaking shift to our understanding of life’s origins, a new study from Penn State University challenges the ...

Aliens probably look just like we do, a new study suggests. This is because scientists now believe life on Earth evolved in a ...

A new model upends the decades-old “hard steps” theory that intelligent life was an incredibly improbable event and suggests that maybe it wasn't all that hard or improbable. The team of researchers ...

A new study proposes a way to use weak gravitational lensing data to test the long-held Cosmological Principle of the ...

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

The researchers are proposing that the universe’s history may have been punctuated by spells of eerie stillness. These periods of cosmic stasis could arise in such a way that they replace whole ...

HONG KONG (AP) - World-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that the late Pope John Paul II once told scientists they should not study the beginning of the universe because it was the ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...

From helping catalyze interstellar reactions and fueling the birth of stars to its presence in neighborhood gas giants like ...