The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...

Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...

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"There seems to be no limit for the degree of chemical complexity that interstellar space is able to fabricate." ...

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...