Our universe does host life, but it’s not the most optimal universe for life. Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank Drake, Ph.D., the eponymous Drake equation sought to estimate the number of ...

The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not in a special place in the Universe. Us humans are not privileged ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.

The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter ...

By employing a new and improved supercollider, scientists are hoping to dissect the very fabric of the Universe and calculate ...

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

The science that was repulsive to an idea of religious belief thus began to embrace religious ideas culminating with the ...

NASA has released an eerie audio clip of sound waves emanating from a supermassive black hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals mysterious 'little red dots' in the distant universe, sparking new theories on ...