According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

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Are we alone? Scientists investigate the rarity of life on Earth-like planets with groundbreaking telescopes and methods.

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

Spiral galaxy J2345−0449, 947 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Aquarius, is a very unusual object ...

Cosmic rays, gamma rays, and X-rays, all associated with the massive jets emerging from the black hole at the heart of this galaxy, threaten any life ... unlike the ordinary matter that composes stars ...

At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

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The position of this Great Filter, as he named it, is critically important as we contemplate the future of humanity. If the ...