A newly discovered galaxy is challenging what scientists thought they knew about galactic collisions. Located 567 million ...

A team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside, demonstrated how new optical ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

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.

Neutron stars, the collapsed remnants of massive stars, hold the densest matter in the universe. These cosmic objects are ...