When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant ...

The first conclusive discovery of crystalline frozen water in a far-off young star system has been made by researchers using ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a groundbreaking feat by definitively detecting crystalline ice water in the ...

On Feb. 27, 1988, the first of my weekly columns on stargazing appeared in print. More than 1.5 million words later, I sit ...

As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more impressive than ever.

In a groundbreaking shift to our understanding of life’s origins, a new study from Penn State University challenges the long-standing belief that the rise of intelligent life is an incredibly rare ...

The discovery of Quipu was made possible through the Cosmic Large-Scale Structure ... structures in the observable universe. It challenges existing cosmological models that suggest a limit to ...

Astronomers have found the largest structure in the universe so far, named Quipu after an Incan measuring system. It contains a shocking 200 quadrillion solar masses.

Earth was not the center of the universe, it turned out. It wasn’t even the center of the solar system! The solar system ... to simplify their mathematical models of the universe’s past ...

The project is a 1:3.6 billion scale model of the solar system that stretches just over 1.24 kilometres from Dirleton village green to Archerfield Walled Garden. The installation consists of a set of ...

Clockwise, from top left, no dark energy, same dark energy density as in our Universe, 30 and 10 times the dark energy density in our Universe. The images are generated from a suite of cosmological ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which ... of the large-scale structure of the ...