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 ...

Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research is pushing astronomers to look instead at the loudest neighborhoods in the ...

"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up." ...

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory ...

It makes sense, really.

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, there’s life out there somewhere. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The first publicly released science-quality image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from Cambridge studied over 250 galaxies and found most were turbulent, still forming ...

Where are the smallest galaxies? A recent study suggests that there may not be as nearly as many of them in the early universe as there should be, which has big implications for the story of how our ...

Astronomers used subtle warps in galaxy shapes to map the invisible forces shaping the universe. By reanalyzing years of telescope images, they studied more than 100 million galaxies across an ...