The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter, thought to make up more than one-quarter of the ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending ...