Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to ...

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New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could ...

If this hasn’t sent you into a bit of an existential spiral, they assure that it’s unlikely that we are the only ones out here, saying: “Although there’s no evidence yet that aliens are out there — ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cosmos. How old is the universe?Could a solar flare destroy the ...

The vast majority of stars form and reside within galaxies due to the presence of cold, dense molecular gas clouds conducive to star formation. True intergalactic space, characterized by low-density ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered multiple evolutionary paths for the universe's most massive galaxies. Observations of ultramassive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion ...

Two space telescopes really are better than one. This month NASA released a new image that combines observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory of two ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.