Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

This video shows the habitable zone around the star HD 20794 (in green) and the trajectory of the three planets in the system. Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more ...

Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A recent study investigates the radical mundanity principle of the Fermi paradox to understand why evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations remains elusive.

How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence ...