Astrobiology faces the fundamental challenge of searching for extraterrestrial life without a universal definition of life or examples beyond Earth, despite the discovery of over 5,000 exoplanets, ...

Mario Livio, bestselling astrophysicist, and Jack Szostak, Nobel Prize winner, join forces to discover how the universe ...

A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies around 13 billion years ago. These observations of the ...

Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life. The values of the many forces and particles, represented by some 30 so-called ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

Water may have first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, making it much older than previously thought. It could also mean that life evolved billions of ...

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The findings call into question just how finely tuned our universe really is. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Somewhere in the ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...