A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

Fifty years ago, the famed Arecibo message was fired into space to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Now is ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Scientists estimate a 27% chance of intelligent alien life beyond our galaxy using a new model. The research integrates the ...

A cosmic clash of epic proportions is about to play out in Smells Like a Mushroom on Xbox, PlayStation and PC.

The findings suggest that the formation of stars in the early universe was much quicker than previously thought.

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three massive galaxies from the early universe, revealing ...

It all looks so beautiful and peaceful. The images of other galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy convey a similar feeling. However, these impressions are incorrect. Out there among the galaxies, the ...

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

Scientists are working on an accurate way of calculating ... on other planets. American astronomer Dr. Frank Drake came up ...