A computer-based study is simulating the behaviour of massive cosmic jets in a virtual universe to help us understand how ...

Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e. points where the laws of physics break down. Identifying how ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Astronomers have detected a relatively close exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of its star, where temperatures are ...

An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed image ever of a cosmic filament, a vast structure of gas ...

Explore how new research suggests that intelligent life may emerge naturally under favorable conditions over time.

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...

In May, a new achievement in the field of quantum science was published in the journal Science, with Chinese scientists ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

For this, astronomers used two facilities: the Submillimeter Array (SMA), CfA's eight-dish collection of radio telescopes in ...