The hot and cold spots from the hemispheres of the sky, as they appear in the CMB. This encodes a tremendous amount of information about the early Universe. We expect both hemispheres to have the same ...

Scientists are working on an accurate way of calculating the probability of finding alien life elsewhere in the universe. Astrophysicists have developed a theoretical model that could be used to ...

The old adage goes that if you give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time hitting random keys on a typewriter, one of them will eventually type out the complete works of William ...

Many other planets throughout the universe probably hosted intelligent life long before Earth did, a new study suggests. The probability of a civilization developing on a potentially habitable alien ...

ANU Astrophysicist and Cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker theorises about the existence of complex and intelligent life and the statistical probability that such species exist or have existed in the past, ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and author of "How to Die in Space." Sutter contributed this article to ...